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James Richardson
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James Richardson’s collections of poems, aphorisms, ten-second essays, and microlyrics include For Now (forthcoming 2020); During (2016); By the Numbers (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award; and Interglacial (2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award—all from Copper Canyon Press. Of “Wanderer’s Night Song (II),” Richardson writes: “I fell in love with Goethe’s whisper of a poem in the first week of college and fifty years later got around to translating it.” He is the recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize. He teaches at Princeton University. (updated 2/2020)

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Latecomers
AGNI 60 Print Only
Poetry
Frictions
AGNI 60 Print Only

AGNI has published the following translation:

Poetry
Wanderer’s Night Song (II)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated from the German by James Richardson
AGNI 91 Nature Spirituality
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