{"product_id":"vectors-aphorisms-ten-second-essays-9780967266893","title":"Vectors: Aphorisms \u0026 Ten-Second Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Richardson is one of the finest poets now writing, and the best contemporary practitioner of the art of aphorism.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since the appearance of W. S. Merwin's translations and adaptations of aphorisms in \u003ci\u003eAsian Figures, \u003c\/i\u003e some thirty years ago, has an American poet managed to put down so much delightful and compelling wisdom.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one theme or moral pervades these tesserae of specificity. Rather, Richardson's elegant compression invites the reader to fill in the blanks with personal experience... Richardson's knack for the quintessential, sustained for more than a hundred pages, left me satisfied yet hungry for more.-- \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will be obsessed by this book; they will memorize passages, give copies to friends, proselytize. That's because \u003ci\u003eVectors\u003c\/i\u003e so generously provides the best that poetry can offer. It is a masterpiece of practicality, beauty, and solace.-- \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Richardson's \u003ci\u003eVectors\u003c\/i\u003e... penetrates to the very heart of human nature. I stand looking in the mirror, alert to my own foibles, shaking my head as I tolerate what I know he knows about who I am.-- \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost every entry... introduces a new insight, provides a revelation, supplies a surprise... it is a book one wants to spend time with, a wonderfully friendly book, generous, witty and entertaining.-- \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVectors\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of book you read, reread, thumb through, and pick up several extra copies because you want to share the joy you found in perusing it with friends.-- \u003ci\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Richardson's \u003ci\u003eVectors\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of subversive wonders. Stunningly precise, these brilliant aphorisms and ten-second essays show a mind assessing, reassessing, discovering, and interrogating assumptions in ways that feel diamond-sharp, at once good-natured, quietly sly at times, and always, always, very shrewd. 'It can never be satisfied, the mind, never, ' wrote Wallace Stevens. \u003ci\u003eVectors\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable testament to such questing, vivid minding, as these aphorisms alight on everything from the nature of perception, to God, success, fear, shame, self-consciousness, love and friendship.--Laurie Sheck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ausable Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780967266893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.44w x 0.34d","brand":"James Richardson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41071650111669,"sku":"9780967266893","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_daa44fd9-51cf-4a16-b028-a61b82b9f13d.jpg?v=1632232155","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/vectors-aphorisms-ten-second-essays-9780967266893","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}