Aftermath Poems by Arnold David Richards

ISBN: 978-1-969031-11-3

Arnold David Richards is a modern poet howling at the night, at death, at life. His poems are reflections of a life lived during the glory of American democracy and now looking out on a dark and uncertain horizon. Through poetry he finds his place in time, in space, in language, in politics, in history, in the universe. His poems, one at a time, help to heal the world, like the licking kisses of his dog, Maidel. Tikkun Olam.
—DANIEL S. BENVENISTE, PhD author of Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo and The Interwoven Lives
of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud 

It is a delight to read this collection of poems, which, as the title suggests, reflects on the accumulation of life experience and knowledge . . . in the vision of a gifted poet. Dr. Richards is an accomplished psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, educator, editor, and publisher, who began writing poetry when he was 90 years old. He has proved himself to be an accomplished poet, a true visionary. His recognition of the failures, errors, and horrors created by cynical world leaders, politicians, or oligarchs, over centuries, culminating in the repetition of such actions now, in our contemporary world, is a  necessary call to us to pay attention. And he does so with the power of poetry, which always has played a role in creating change. His poems also reflect delight in relationships with others. His vision is humanistic, ethical, and necessary.
—MERLE H. MOLOFSKY, LP, MFA, NCPsy, author of Streets 1970, Necessary Voices, and Sh’ma, I Hear Voices

Arnie’s work reveals a deeply human need to connect ideas, and to closely observe his life and times. Feisty, irritable, touching and yearning, they reveal one remarkable man raging against the darkness while looking for the light.
—ALICE MAHER, PhD, author of Catalysis: A Recipe to Slow Down or Abort Humankind’s Leap to War

Voluminous words flow from Dr Richard’s book of poems, like water from a fountain. Covering important moments of our time, politics—the history of the present.
—ELLEN GUSSAROFF, PHD, LCSW

ARNOLD DAVID RICHARDS, MD, Editor of JAPA from 1994–2003; former editor of TAP; member, the Contemporary Freudian Society; honorary member of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis; author of six volumes of his selected papers, and the memoir Unorthodox: My Life in and Outside Psychoanalysis coeditor of four books. With Arlene Kramer Richards, he has founded and taught a psychoanalytic teaching program at the Mental Health Hospital in Wuhan, China, receiving an award from the hospital and municipality in Wuhan in the Spring of 2024.  He is also the online publisher of Internationalpsychoanalysis.net, as well as the International Journal of Controversial Discussions.