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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 collage artist whose work appears online at richardleach.deviantart.com. This book presents 52 poems written between October 2011 and August 2013. The poems range in tone from humorous to bitingly political. Leach's Christian sacred poetry has been widely published and sung as hymns and anthems. He lives in Pike County, Pennsylvania.

Richard Leach is a poet and collage artist whose work appears online at richardleach.deviantart.com. This book presents 44 poems written between August 2013 and September 2014. It includes blues, free verse, an abecedarium and a reverse abecedarium, on personal, political and surreal topics. Leach's Christian sacred poetry has been widely published and sung as hymns and anthems. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

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.

This is a collection of 37 poems inspired by the first part of the Chinese classic, "Tao Te Ching," attributed to Lao Tzu. They are very free, sometimes restating Lao Tzu's words and other times departing from them.

Richard Leach is a poet and collage artist whose work appears online at richardleach.deviantart.com. This book presents 34 poems, most written between August 2014 and March 2016. It includes free verse, rhyming verse, blues lyrics and one found poem on personal, political and surreal topics. Leach's Christian sacred poetry has been widely published and sung as hymns and anthems. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

Richard Leach is a poet who began writing hymn and anthem texts in 1987, while serving as a pastor in New England. Since then his work has been widely published, in denominational hymnals, independent hymn collections and dozens of anthem settings. A Single Tongue comprises sacred poems, in both free and traditional forms, not in print elsewhere.

"Listen to the liars who want to be president" is the first line of the first poem in this collection, from November 2015. "Worlds end and keep on ending/right outside your door" begins the last stanza of the book's last poem, written in March 2017. In between are additional cutting political poems, blues lyrics, slices of life, slanted takes on Bible passages, and a poem including 26 superheroes. Richard Leach is a poet and visual artist whose work appears online at richardleach.deviantart.com. This is his sixth self-published collection of poetry. Leach also writes Christian sacred poetry which has been widely published, set to music and sung as hymns and anthems. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

Richard Leach is a mixed media artist and poet living in Stamford, Connecticut. This book presents 36 small collages made in 2016, in a larger than life format.

Richard Leach is a poet and visual artist who lives in Stamford, Connecticut. This book presents 30 mixed media pieces made between between February 2015 and January 2017, reproduced at or near life size. Leach's work may be viewed online at richardleach.deviantart.com.

This is a revision of a poem collection published in 2010 as The Big Conversation. Richard Leach is a poet and visual artist from Stamford, Connecticut. Since 1987 he has written sacred lyric poetry which has been widely published and sung as Christian hymns and anthems. In 2009 he shifted the direction of his work to secular poetry shared online, and in 2010 collected the first 16 months of that work in The Big Conversation. This re-titled edition has a new introduction, and twenty poems used in a later book with the photos that inspired them have been removed.

Number Seven is selected poems from six poetry collections published between 2010 and 2017 by American poet and visual artist Richard Leach. The poems range from daily life to surreal humor and biblical allusion, in formal and free verse. Leach is also a Christian sacred poet whose words for hymns and anthems have been set to music by many composers, and are widely published and sung. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

A Handful of Sparks collects 76 of the blues lyrics and similar verses Richard Leach has been writing since the early 2000s, selecting them from previous books which included other poetry forms. The title is from "Just Saying Blues," which has these lines: "I've got a handful of sparks, and a houseful of gasoline./I don't think you should ask me, 'What does burning mean?'"

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.

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.

Working at the nano-scale demands an understanding of the high-precision measurement techniques that make nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing possible. Richard Leach introduces these techniques to a broad audience of engineers and scientists involved in nanotechnology and manufacturing applications and research. He also provides a routemap and toolkit for metrologists engaging with the rigor of measurement and data analysis at the nano-scale. Starting from the fundamentals of precision measurement, the author progresses into different measurement and characterization techniques. The focus on nanometrology in engineering contexts makes this book an essential guide for the emerging nanomanufacturing / nanofabrication sector, where measurement and standardization requirements are paramount both in product specification and quality assurance. This book provides engineers and scientists with the methods and understanding needed to design and produce high-performance, long-lived products while ensuring that compliance and public health requirements are met. Updated to cover new and emerging technologies, and recent developments in standards and regulatory frameworks, this second edition includes many new sections, e.g. new technologies in scanning probe and e-beam microscopy, recent developments in interferometry and advances in co-ordinate metrology.