Overview

My World and Yours 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 My World and Yours 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 My World and Yours, 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.-Gigi Marks, Editor of this volume, poet, and author of the books Close By, Shelter, Territory, and What We Need.

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""Arnie Richards's work has such life force and poignancy, it's sure to open your heart."" -CAROL DAVID, ARTIST, FRIEND, AND FAN ""Intrigued by the sharpness of his eye, I was curious about what kind of camera he preferred, and asked him. . . . Arnie's response was Arniesque, one might say: 'My iPhone.' Arnold Richards's art also comes as surprisingly delightful. His photography is minimalist, evocative and poetic. Fascinatingly, you feel the breathing, embodied soul behind the lens. And even when it is a sunset they are always about humans. Then he takes us through times of cataclysms, catastrophes, loves, losses of his long life. The poetic steady rhythm of the indomitable river of his times with its extraordinariness and ordinariness. In sum, these collections of Arnie, through the historical, vibrant, embodied soul of this talented artist of living, are about us."" -SAGMAN KAYATEKIN, MD

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ARNOLD DAVID RICHARDS, MD, Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 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.

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