Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Alex Richardson’s poems explore the nuances of selfhood and circumstance, particularly when the cultivated routines of existence encounter the unexpected. In Packing the Dogs and Other Peasant Traditions for Miami, his poems examine the liminal spaces between worlds both natural and psychological. The collection contemplates where we come from, where we are going and the ways the self manages the journey. The poems seek to reconcile a stable identity within a landscape that is changing, a dynamic reflected by the ironies of daily life, as the speaker navigates evolving relationships with place, with loved ones, with the past and with the future.