As If NOVELTY-NOVELTY As Aline continues unaware

As Aline continues unaware

and for almost forty years she's been looking for answers

the shallow side of the pool is the only side of the pool he treads water on

She knows she's made mistakes

The left-hand pages are intentionally printed upside-down

As If NOVELTY-NOVELTY As Aline continues unawareA reissue of a celebrated collection of poems from James Richardson. James Richardsons poems concern humor, paradox, and nuanced perception of human interaction As If was originally selected by Amy Clampitt and published as part of the National Poetry Series. In Clampitts words: To discover a vocabulary and a syntax equal in precision to the micron and the nanosecond: such is the enterprise James Richardson calls on his readers to join . . .