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In this seriously playful new collection, James Richardson enters into underused and forgotten places in our emotional spectrum to revive lost feelings. His breathtaking skill with aphorisms open portals of new perspective to refresh us with their humor and make the familiar reinvigorated with the blessedly strange. From "Big Scenes": And what was King Kong ever going to do with Fay Wray, or Jessica Lange, but climb, climb, climb and get shot down? No wonder Gulliver's amiably chatting with that six-inch woman in his palm. Desire's huge, there's really nowhere to put it in this small world that it will stay put: might as well just talk…