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Praise for Tad
Richards
about
Take Five
These 5/4 poems with their
shaved-bare grammatical economy and rapid fire narrative pivots come to
life with dream-like fluidity in their vivid and mercurial moments
thanks to the masterfully crafted vision of Tad Richards.
-- Dennis Doherty, author of The Bad Man and Fugitive
about Situations
Starting
with the most unpromising of unpoetic materials--one-sentence summaries
of episodes of television shows--Tad Richards has created a human comedy
populated with characters real and imaginary, all on a scope to rival
Pushkin. Crazy and crazed, erotic and tender by turns, Byronic in its
formal extravagance--Situations answers the reader's most basic
question: What's on next?"
—
R.S. Gwynn
about My Night with the Language Thieves
Tad
Richards is the Tom Waits of contemporary poetry — gritty, original, and
great fun."
— Nancy Willard
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Richards is the author of a poetry collection, My
Night With the Language Thieves, and a novel in
verse, Situations, and is proud to claim Ye Olde
Font Shoppe as the publisher of both.
In addition to
Terry Gilliam, he has been variously compared to Byron, Pushkin and Tom Waits. His new novel, written with
Jonathan Richards, is Nick and Jake, a comic romp
through the McCarthy era. . |
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