Quotidian Poems by Arnold David Richards

In reading this book of every day ordinary extraordinary experience, we gain insight into what truly matters, what a poet / scientist / psychoanalyst / son / father / husband/ human being tells us about life, life and death, memories, discoveries . . . Arnie offers us so much in “Poetry is a Commentary on Life”, beginning with “on the sublime and the banal / the ordinary and the extraordinary”, and concluding with
“poetry makes life worth living/ living makes poetry worth writing”. In “Life”, Arnie offers a delightful possibility, a possibility offered by creativity: “Fly on the wings of your imagination/ soaring birds”.
In this book of poetry, we can enjoy flying on the wings of imagination, through language, science, memories, contemplating life and death, symbolism, the playful freedom of meaning, ideas, and discovery, the extraordinary ordinary quotidian every day.
—MERLE HEIDI MOLOFSKY, NCPsya, LP, MFA, psychoanalyst, and poet; author of Sch’ma: I Hear Voices, Necessary Voices, and Streets 1970.

ARNOLD DAVID RICHARDS, MD, Editor of JAPA from 1994–2003; former Editor of TAP; member of 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.
his book combines all the poems of his first three poetry collections, plus a few
new ones, sans the photographs.