As If Memoir_Gift_Guide and building a truly meaningful

and building a truly meaningful collection

• Lolling About—the official activity of the Sweet Potato Queens

including segregation of schools and economic decline

Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle)

fresh and dazzling world building

As If Memoir_Gift_Guide and building a truly meaningfulA 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 . . .