Postscript: More Poems by Arnold David Richards

Arnold Richard is multitude: Psychoanalyst, scientific article writer, teacher, administrator, journal editor, book publisher, husband, father, grandfather—and a poet. Arnie’s poetry strives to connect with others, and share our human experience. He likens his poetry to music, and the  rhythm of his words joins us in our common humanity. In his poem “Music” he says:

Words keep us apart, differentiate and cause argument
Poetry and music we all share
Moving to the rhythm
We are together

—DOUG CHAVIS, MD, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Chevy Chase, MD

For this latest collection of poems, Arnold David Richards has strapped himself to the front
of a highspeed train traveling through his past, his present, and driving fullsteamahead into the next moment. As he goes hurtling through time, in his 90s, he’s savoring each moment, each thought, each feeling as if it were his first, as if it were his last. In Postscript, he delivers us to the precious poignancy of everyday life. He circumambulates the heavens as his universe, embraces his family as his universe, and falls in love with math, physics, nature, and Maidel, his ohsosweet dog—”a product of God.” His poems bring us to the threshold of awe.
—DANIEL S. BENVENISTE, PHD, author of Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo

“Poetry is the most honest language I hear today” (Bill Moyers). In Postscript, Arnold David Richards culls insights from a lifetime of truthful encounters with himself and others. Each poem, a gem; each gem, hard won wisdom. Read this book, and enter the mind of a brilliant psychoanalyst, refusing to surrender his humane perspective on politics, history, creativity,
aging, and his own eventful life.
—SANDRA BUECHLER, PHD, author of Psychoanaltytic Reflections: Training and Practice, and Poetic Dialogues