The Double Zero: Poems

Judge David Blair writes: This is a poet with range–sympathies, anger, tragedy, other people, love, humor… . Richards writes unsentimental poems that road-trip through our times and look around at who is with us when we stop to fill up our cars at gas stations, [who] has been with us in offices … she reminds us of what the country has gained in consciousness and freedom, … what sorrows and suicides we have left necessarily behind, as the bus pulls up at the curb in the don’t-you-get-it-yet years we have been motoring through lately.