By the Numbers (Lannan Literary Selections)
James Richardson is the author of the best-selling VECTORS: APHORISMS & TEN-SECOND ESSAYS (Ausable Press, 2001). His poetry includesReservations,Second Guesses,As If, which was chosen by Amy Clampitt for the National Poetry Series,A Suite for Lucretians,How Things Are, INTERGLACIAL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS & APHORISMS (Ausable Press, 2004), and BY THE NUMBERS (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). He is the author of two critical studies,Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity, andVanishing Lives: Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley and Robert H. Winner Prizes from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.