Daughters Of The Alphabet



				Daughters Of The Alphabet Poems by Robert Richman ISBN 0-914278-81-9 $14.00 US



				From the author of VOICE ON THE WIND (Copper Beech Press ISBN: 0-914278-72-X). This is the second collection of poems from the acclaimed poet and editor.



		“How good to be reminded, in our complicit efficiencies, of that realm of lucid shadows, a poetry not so much written out as rubbed in, never merely “made up.” To be put beside the anxious mutterings of consciousness, this corrective book of songs and sayings, primed for falling, but not fallen.” —Richard Howard “Robert Richman’s elegant poems — marked by a playful intelligence and emotional richness — opt for maturity over flash, complexity over the quick fix. His splendid book amply proves that the race, as he writes, “is not won by the fastest / but by the one who runs most beautifully” —David Yezzi “Like many poets, Robert Richman “could live off the words alone.” But unlike most of his contemporaries, he focuses on ideas. For him, ideas (especially those of other writers, whom he engages in many of these poems) are as elemental a reality as nature. In a writer of such pure intellect, the gently intimate poems about family and children are especially rewarding. In a line that blazes with the poignant conflation of language and love at the heart of this book, he concludes: “Who can’t admit / their alphabet of innocent caresses?” —Enid Shomer


	About the Author


		Robert Richman is the author of Voice on the Wind (Copper Beech Press ISBN: 0-914-278-72-X), his first collection of poems, and the editor of The Direction of Poetry, the first formalist anthology. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, from Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Republic to The Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and The Yale Review, and he has published criticism in The American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, and The London Times Literary Supplement. For many years the poetry editor of The New Criterion, he lives in Cos Cob, Connecticut.