Reservations: Poems

by James Richardson

Book Overview

"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691643865
• ISBN13: 9780691643861
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"