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Aspire Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781956864991
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Aspire, Arnie Richards's latest book of poems, he visits the many corners of his world, kisses them tenderly, and breathes life into them. A precious good morning to each. Arnie is not a bystander in psychoanalysis, in politics, in love, or in poetry. He's engaged and happening now. He holds inside him everything he's ever learned, everyone he's ever known, and every place he's ever been. This collection of poems is a Book of Knowledge. With many poems having one word titles, he takes us through the vocabulary of his life and the dictionary of his world. He writes, 'my poetic mind beats like my corporeal heart, ' and indeed it does and the beat goes on. In Aspire, he aims higher.
-DANIEL S. BENVENISTE, PHD, psychoanalyst, author, Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud's Totem and Taboo
The richness of Aspire Poems by Arnold Richards, is the richness of who he is, a highly accomplished psychoanalyst, writer, educator, thinker. He discovered he was a poet at the age of 90, and aspired to fulfill his destiny as a poet. In the first poem in this collection, he describes this process, 'a lifetime of other thoughts and a lifetime of experience.' In Another poem, he realizes, 'I write poems to connect with people, connection requires empathy.' His empathy connects with my delight in his poetry!
-MERLE MOLOFSKY, MFA, NCPSYA, psychoanalyst, author, Streets 1970, Necessary Voices, and Sh'ma: I Hear Voices
RENAISSANCE MAN
When you meet a man of all seasons / With a broad knowledge base / Who has expertise in many fields / Incisive intellectual curiosity / Who is creative in both science and art You have met a man for all seasons / A man true to his principles and conscience / A fighter for social justice / Who refuses to cave to public pressure / Who teaches what he preaches When you meet Dr. Arnold Richards / In person, in his books and writing / And in this poetry / You have met an intellect with heart / You have met a Renaissance man.
-JUDITH LOGUE, PHD, psychoanalyst, Founding Member, IPPNJ (Institutefor Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy of New Jersey)
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