By the numbers / James Richardson
- Bib ID:
- 5448533
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Richardson, James, 1950-
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- Description:
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- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2010
- xi, 111 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781556593208
- 1556593201
- Summary:
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"For James Richardson, poetry is speculative and serious play. By the Numbers captivates with its range of line and movement, its microlyrics, crypto-quatrains, and "ten-second essays," its aphorisms that twist and snap. Drawing from myriad lore--Ovidian and Shakespearean, georgic and scientific--Richardson makes familiar scenes strange enough to provoke startling insights."--P. [4] of cover
- Full contents:
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- [Pt.] I. Bit Parts. Northwest passage
- In Shakespeare
- Special victims unit
- Subject, verb, object
- Emergency measures
- Metallurgy for dummies
- Head-on
- Iron age
- Classic bar scenes : Apollo at happy hour ; Ovidian deposition ; Pygmalion among the young ; Twilight of a God ; Orpheus at last call ; Apollo in age
- Zeus : a press conference
- State-sponsored
- Echo
- Bit parts
- The God who
- [pt.] II. Vectors 3.0 : even more aphorisms and ten-second essays
- [pt.] III. By the numbers. By the numbers
- Birds in rain
- Are we alone? or Physics you can do at home
- Prokaryotes
- The stars in order of
- Origin of language
- Songs for senility
- Room temperature
- [pt.] IV. Small hours. Shore town, winter
- Tableau
- Postmortem Georgic
- Night lights : (1977- ) ; Blackout ; The rich man sotto voce ; To a tea ; Slice of life ; Who has seen the wind ; Red, green, blue ; Star ; Reading light
- Roads not taken
- Roads taken
- End of summer.
- Notes:
- "A Lannan literary selection"--P. [4] of cover.
- Awards:
- National Book Award finalist, 2010.
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- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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