James Richardson 's collections of poems and aphorisms include For Now; During , which received the Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America; National Book Award finalist By the Numbers ; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Interglacial; Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays ; and How Things Are , which was also published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He is professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.