Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms

This volume contains Richardson s newest book, Interglacial, as well as a generous retrospective of his previous five, several of which have been out of print for years. Although his diction and musical ear are clearly contemporary and American, Richardson s sensibility is both lyric (in the classical sense) and philosophical, bringing to mind poets as dissimilar as Wallace Stevens and the Romantics.

He has been praised for his fierce and probing intelligence, his inventive syntax (which Thomas Lux has described as a gorgeous surge and pull in his sentences ), and his subtle and formally tensile music. This book will establish Richardson as one of our most accomplished, ambitious, and necessary poets.

James Richardson was born in 1950, and was educated at Princeton. He is the author of six books of poetry and two critical studies. He is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and winner of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.