Bücher von Richard Leach

70 poems to celebrate Richard Leach's seventieth birthday in 2023, 66 selected from over a dozen previous collections, and four new poems. Short poems, long poems, formal verse, free verse, blues lyrics, ekphrastic poems, abecedaria! From serious to light in tone, themes ranging from Eve and Adam after the garden of Eden to the comic book character Ben Grimm. Poems on the passage of time, poems for friends, and poems for jazz music and musicians. Leach is a sacred poet whose words for hymns and anthems have been set to music by many composers and are widely published and sung. He has written secular poetry extensively since 2009, sharing it on social media and collecting it in self-published books. His work has also appeared in print in Rattle magazine and in numerous online publications including One Sentence Poems, Better Than Starbucks, and Heroes Are Gang Leaders Gianthology. Born in Bangor, Maine, he graduated from Bowdoin College and Princeton Theological Seminary and was a pastor in Connecticut. He is also a visual artist whose chief medium is paper collage. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

The Song Itself collects poems that range from blues lyrics to surreal lists, from slices of life to flights of fancy, in rhyming as well as free verse. Most were written between January and July 2018. Richard Leach is an American poet and visual artist, whose visual art and secular poetry are shared online and in self-published books. He also writes Christian sacred poetry. His words for hymns and anthems have been set to music by many composers, and are widely published and sung. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

""I remember, I remember, how the garden used to be./We had everything we wanted, except for that one tree."" Those lines are from ""Adam's Blues"", title piece and first entry in this collection. The book continues with poems on Adam and Eve in Eden and in the 21st century; a summer blockbuster superhero psalm (""Sheol my arch-nemesis/sent his minions after me/They trapped me in a death net/and hit me with a hydro-blast""); poems which travel from the Apostles' Creed to unexpected destinations (""They say I'm lucky/to be here in the Creed,"" says Pontius Pilate); and more. Humorous, thoughtful and poignant poems in rhyme or free verse.Richard Leach is a poet and visual artist in Stamford, Connecticut. His sacred poetry, words for hymns and anthems, has been set to music by many composers and is widely published and sung. Since 2009 he has written secular verse on many topics and in many forms.

Richard Leach is a poet and visual artist from Stamford, Connecticut. This book presents 30 collages made on playing cards or playing card size cardboard (2.5 x 3.5 inches) between November, 2016 and July, 2017. They are reproduced here larger than life size. The media include ink, pencil, and glued paper.

Poet and visual artist Richard Leach calls this book an album, for the range of forms and themes it includes. Free verse, metered and rhymed verse, and blues lyrics are here; daily life, American politics, and surrealism ("Seven Jungles of Bells", for example) are here. 47 of the poems were written in 2017. Two more written earlier bookend the collection.