Background
Richardson, James was born on January 1, 1950 in Bradenton, Florida, United States. Son of James Everette and Betty (Behrer) Richardson.
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500 aphorisms. Our best-seller. In Boston Review, Brenda O’Shaughnessy wrote, “Readers will be obsessed by this book; they will memorize passages, give copies to friends, proselytize. That’s because Vectors so generously provides the best that poetry can offer. It is a masterpiece of practicality, beauty, and solace.”
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Book by Weiss, T. n Renee (eds.) / James Richardson; Susan Yankowitz; J.D. Smith; Philip Dacey; Ann Goldsmith; Richard Sewell
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(One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is...)
One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness, a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing, which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go. Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of the self; they render life as transparent, ghostlike, dissolving, ungraspable, nearly unrememberable. This vanishing away, this dimness, of Victorian poetry is most obvious in the twilights, mists, shadows, deep horizons, and flowing waters of its central landscape, but it is also a matter of sound and syntax, of repetition and rhythm, texture and line movement. Vanishing Lives examines these features and links them to larger issues, such as the psychology of the individual poets, and the Victorian and modern frames of mind. The tendencies under consideration are less ideas than forms or styles of feeling. They are so universal in the nineteenth century that they may not seem to call for comment, but for all their vagueness they are deep, powerful, resistant to change-an essential stratum of the experience of Victorian poetry. For poets like Yeats, who struggled to move beyond them, they were far more than the trappings of an outmoded poetry. They were a deeply ingrained aesthetic, a style, a morality, not only a way of art to be revised, but a way of living to be outgrown-a Tennysonian way.
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This book gathers under one roof poems from all of Richardson’s earlier collections, a number of which are out of print: Reservations (1977), Second Guesses (1984), As If(1992), A Suite for Lucretians (1999), How Things Are (2000), and Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays (2001), as well as a large selection of new poems and aphorisms. A distillation of three decades of work, Interglacial will introduce this poet to a new generation of readers. Richardson fans will be pleased to discover early poems long out of print, and to see this poet’s work in a larger, retrospective context. Praise for Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays: “Not since the appearance of W.S. Merwin’s translations and adaptations of aphorisms in Asian Figures, some thirty years ago, has an American poet put down so much delightful and compelling wisdom.”—Daryl Scroggins in American Literary Review “Page after page there is the exciting sense of something hidden and true coming to light, bringing with it a sense of delighted recognition and discovery for the reader, and articulated in a way that has never quite been done before. I can think of no deeper pleasure a work can bring.”—Laurie Sheck “Vectors is the kind of book you read, reread, thumb through, and pick up several extra copies because you want to share the joy you found in perusing it with friends.”—Scott Hightower in Barrow Street James Richardson was born in 1950, and is the author of six books of poetry and three critical studies. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley and Robert H. Winner Prizes from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.
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Richardson, James was born on January 1, 1950 in Bradenton, Florida, United States. Son of James Everette and Betty (Behrer) Richardson.
AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1971. Master of Arts, University Virginia, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1975.
James Richardson is an American poet and critic. He is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1980. His work has appeared in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, and in publications including The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Slate.
James Richardson became an academic and a poet by the usual means, but he is, by his own admission, an accidental aphorist.
He regarded Vectors (2001), his book of five hundred aphorisms and “ten-second essays,” during its construction as “often… more as a questionable habit than as a book in progress.” The book became a cult favorite almost immediately. lieutenant is easy to see why some would call James Richardson a “nature poet”.
Not only do his poems, and especially his early ones, draw on fairly common images and the phenomena of the physical world, he also shows a likeably human relationship to his environment, the kind we tend to imagine Wordsworth had—this work is feeling and respectful, written very much from open-minded observation and experience.
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(One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is...)
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(Book by Weiss, T. n Renee (eds.) / James Richardson; Susa...)
( 500 aphorisms. Our best-seller. In Boston Review, Brend...)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Academy American Poets, Poetry Society American (Robert H. Winneraward 1991).
Married Mary Rose Conway, June l3, l97l (divorced l978). Married Constance Walter Hassett, July l5, l978. Children: Constance Regina Hassett, Catherine Walter.