James Richardson’s Poetry Collection: As If

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Carnegie Mellon University Press, paperback

Publication Date: October 20, 2023

Publisher Marketing: A reissue of a celebrated collection of poems from James Richardson.

James Richardson’s poems concern humor, paradox, and nuanced perception of human interaction As If was originally selected by Amy Clampitt and published as part of the National Poetry Series. In Clampitt’s words: “To discover a vocabulary and a syntax equal in precision to the micron and the nanosecond: such is the enterprise James Richardson calls on his readers to join . . .”

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