Stan Rice
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Stan Rice, who died in December 2002, was a poet of unique, uncompromising vision. Joy and brutality, faith and faithlessness, the beauty of truth and, at times, of untruth - these opposing forces come together one last time in his final book of poetry, a haunting collection of psalms."
"Beginning with his "Psalm 151"--That is, taking up where the Bible leaves off - Rice calls us to his own kind of prayer and contemplation. "Lord, hear me out,"...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Behold the door / the lock's alive, " warns Stan Rice in one of the precise, commanding poems that make up his latest volume of verse.
Rice's work is at times sharp and minimalist and at times over the top in its vivid critique of life and in its regard for the sanctity that lurks in all experience. From the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras to the private chambers of the imagination, Rice sings of the darkness that conflicts us and of the...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
An anthology from a New Orleans poet. In Graves during a Civil War, he writes: "There are many deaths, / And little ground. / Thus the graves must be narrow. / About as wide as cots. / But as deep as ever. / Though the ground be frozen / And the digging an agony / The graves / Should not also / Be shallow. / Their narrowness is indignity enough."
