Poetry. "...There's a broad, probing, unusual intelligence in [Richardson's] work, an unusual kind of technical introspection and a wide-ranging inspiration and content that use as their matter images and ideas from sources as far afield as ancient philosophy, and contemporary science...it is work that brings news to us of packets of mental and emotional experience that haven't sung so well together in poetry for a longer time than one would care to think"--C.K. Williams. James Richardson is the author of five books of poetry, including VECTORS: APHORISMS & TEN-SECOND ESSAYS, and several critical studies. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley and Robert H. Winner Prizes from the Poetry Society of America, he is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.

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James Richardson is the author of the best-selling VECTORS: APHORISMS & TEN-SECOND ESSAYS (Ausable Press, 2001). His poetry includes Reservations, Second Guesses, As If, which was chosen by Amy Clampitt for the National Poetry Series, A Suite for Lucretians, How Things Are, INTERGLACIAL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS & APHORISMS (Ausable Press, 2004), and BY THE NUMBERS (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). He is the author of two critical studies, Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity, and Vanishing Lives: Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats. 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.