Oubliette

(Paperback)

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In his introduction to this, Richards debut collection, Tomaz Salamun writes "It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art."

Author Bio

PETER RICHARDS was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1967. His honors include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, the John Logan Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry. He teaches at Tufts University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. His first book, Oubliette (Verse Press, 2001), won a Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award.