{"product_id":"during-9781556594335","title":"During","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For James Richardson  poetry is serious and speculative play for both intellect and imagination… He makes familiar scenes strange enough to provoke new and startling insights.\"National Book Award Judges \"James Richardson is . . . a poet who earned his reputation as a master of imagery and concision.\"The Christian Science Monitor \"One of Americas most distinctive contemporary poets . . . a powerful and moving body of work that in its intimacy and philosophical naturalism is unique in contemporary American poetry.\"Boston Review \"James Richardsons poetry is . . . unusual  quirky  personal  and profound.\"The Threepenny Review In this seriously playful new collection  James Richardson enters into underused and forgotten places in our emotional spectrum to revive lost feelings. His breathtaking skill with aphorisms open portals of new perspective to refresh us with their humor and make the familiar reinvigorated with the blessedly strange. From \"Big Scenes\": And what was King Kong ever going to do with Fay Wray  or Jessica Lange  but climb  climb  climb and get shot down? No wonder Gullivers amiably chatting with that six-inch woman in his palm. Desires huge  theres really nowhere to put it in this small world that it will stay put: might as well just talk… James Richardson is the author of eight books of poetry  including By the Numbers  which was a National Book Award finalist  and his poems appear regularly in The New Yorker. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923671842869,"sku":"ByrdShop_155659433X","price":59.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781556594335.jpg?v=1794111174","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/during-9781556594335","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}