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    By James Richardson

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  • poetry appears frequently in The New Yorker
  • popular teacher at Princeton
  • smart, approachable, generous work
  • critics have compared him to Rilke and W.S. Merwin
  • Georgia Review called him "one of the most exciting poets writing today."
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781619321533
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    James Richardson

    James Richardson is a former senior writer for The Sacramento Bee who has covered Willie Brown and the California Legislature for the past decade. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

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      Book preview

      During - James Richardson

      A Few Thoughts in the Dark

      Again

      Is Memory,

      as they pretend,

      mother of the Muse?—

      or Forgetting,

      who says My friend,

      I know

      you’ve told me before

      about love, death,

      solitude—and what

      were those other things?—but

      tell me again.

      One of the Evenings

      After so many years, we know them.

      This is one of the older Evenings: its patience,

      settling in, its warmth that needs nothing in return.

      So many Augusts sitting out through sunset,

      first a dimness in the undergrowth like smoke,

      and then like someone you hadn’t noticed

      has been watching a long time…

      It has seen everything that can be done in the dark.

      It has seen two rifles swing around

      to train on each other, it has seen lovers meet and revolve,

      it has seen the wounds grayscale in low light.

      It has come equally for those who prayed for it

      and those who switched on lamp after lamp

      until they could not see. It deals evenhandedly

      with the one skimming the stairs as rapidly as typing,

      the one washing plates a little too loudly,

      the one who thinks there is something more important,

      since it does not believe in protagonists,

      since it knows anyone could be anyone else.

      It has heard what they said aloud to the moon, to the

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