"For Richards, life in a poem is like life in a body—most at risk, and most fully at play."—David Rivard, Ploughshares
Exfoliating language with wit, Nude Siren is sardonic, intimate, sump-tuous; an exacting sense of remaking the probabilities of words. Richards knows where to find the sinister in humor, and the grace conveyed by beige light.
Peter Richards is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the John Logan Award. He is the author of Oubliette (Verse Press, 2001).
| Nude Siren | 11 | |
| Coastal People | 12 | |
| Manteau | 13 | |
| Red Boy, Red Girl | 14 | |
| The Idea for Skate Mouth | 15 | |
| The Lord Is My Portion | 16 | |
| The Physical | 17 | |
| Is There a Booth | 18 | |
| Crayon | 19 | |
| Beige | 20 | |
| Lycidas | 21 | |
| The appetite of this bored red cushion | 22 | |
| Eater | 23 | |
| The Fighting Spiders of Bogeo | 24 | |
| Dear Jerusalem | 26 | |
| Doth | 27 | |
| For Me the Appearance | 28 | |
| Days Of | 29 | |
| Sandpiper with Roofer | 30 | |
| Sleeper Car | 31 | |
| Manchester Star | 32 | |
| Hazen | 33 | |
| Poem | 34 | |
| The Glass Tree | 35 | |
| Thursday with Shawl | 36 | |
| Edict | 37 | |
| At the fair the solemnity of her dress | 38 | |
| Burial Sand | 39 | |
| Setting | 40 | |
| Sitting with Asa | 41 | |
| Lake Tear of the Clouds | 42 | |
| The Same | 43 | |
| Picture Night Picture | 44 | |
| Gusset | 45 | |
| Dear Rome | 46 | |
| The Sun | 47 | |
| Kissing Asa | 48 | |
| State Park | 49 | |
| English Blood | 50 | |
| The Bulb of Percussion | 51 | |
| The Orange Cloud | 52 | |
| Reading Oui | 53 | |
| Lead Sheet | 54 | |
| The Bulb of Percussion | 55 | |
| Fortune | 56 | |
| The Resort | 57 | |
| In the middle car of man | 58 | |
| Composition | 59 | |
| From the Afternoon | 60 | |
| Approach | 61 | |
| Esperanto | 62 | |
| Dear Mecca | 63 | |
| Mallows | 64 | |
| The Bulb of Percussion | 65 | |
| Sullen Girl with Branch Speaking | 66 | |
| Plaza | 67 | |
| Aster | 68 | |
| The Contiguous Woman and the Contiguous Man, Together at Last | 69 | |
| Death | 70 | |
| Philter | 71 | |
| Waiting for You | 72 | |
| Reservoir | 73 | |
| Being Late | 74 | |
| Away from you the seafloor's longitudinal | 75 | |
| The Note | 76 | |
| Dear | 77 |
Overview
"For Richards, life in a poem is like life in a body—most at risk, and most fully at play."—David Rivard, Ploughshares
Exfoliating language with wit, Nude Siren is sardonic, intimate, sump-tuous; an exacting sense of remaking the probabilities of words. Richards knows where to find the sinister in humor, and the grace conveyed by beige light.
Peter Richards is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts ...