My World and Yours

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>My World and Yours </em>gathers together photographs and poems by Dr. Arnie Richards at age 90; it is a gift to its readers offering not only a way to be to think but a way to know the world in its intimacy including family history intellectual formation and a tribute to love. For <em>My World and Yours </em>takes place within the context of a long life full of joy grief music loss and the recognition also of the brutalities we live alongside. For Richards poetry celebrates the ordinary people places and things events and happenings in language that is his own uniquely rooted in the past and present conscious and unconscious. His poems are about how we live and when we die who we are and who we hope to be within this specific cultivation of care and attention to the world around us. For <em>My World and Yours</em> in its photographs and poems shows us how as Richards writes when inspiration takes over our mind we can do anything. This is at once a clear invitation and a juxtaposition of the observations from many years resulting for the reader in a vision for living with a sustaining grace through the years of one's own life.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Gigi Marks Editor of this volume poet and author of the books <em>Close By Shelter Territory </em>and <em>What We Need.</em></p><p></p>