Radiance of Pigs: Poems - Hardcover

Rice, Stan

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ISBN 10: 0375404856 ISBN 13: 9780375404856

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Poems deal with feelings, mortality, grief, nature, marriage, myth, and love

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Stan Rice is the author of five collections of poetry, including <b>Fear Itself</b> and <b>Singing Yet</b>. For many years he was associated with San Francisco State University, where he was Professor of English and Creative Writing, Assistant Director of the Poetry Center, and Chairman of the Creative Writing Department. He has been the recipient of the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a writing fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, the novelist Anne Rice.

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poems are outside the circle of coventional poetry in their adherence to the strong, expressionist drive which makes his work so interesting as well as entirely his own. <br><br>People tend to have strong opinions about his work, which led <i>Publisher's Weekly</i> to describe an<br>earlier volume of new and selected poems, <b>Singing Yet</b>, as "serious stuff, urgent and original." <br><br>His last book, <b>Fear Itself</b>, in its wild unpredictability, received praise from Graham Christian in <i>Library Journal</i> as follows: "Rice is an expert practitioner of the paranoiac-surreal; he walks the disquieting dreamscape familiar from the work of such poets as Galway Kinnell and Charles Simic . . . His true<br>subject is the uneasy equation between horror and beauty, the 'liquification of flame' and the horror of order. He is often capable of delivering the instructive surprises of the best poetry." <br><br>The same doomsday energy a

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"Mother Goose"

If you are death-haunted
Never drink beer, my
Dear, or you might drown
In your unshed tears.
I take my tone
From Mother Goose,
Who was a sot, and look
What it got her: shoes
Full of children, talking
Foxes, crooked men,
Fornicating spoons and dishes,
Most of chaos, compulsively
Rhyming. Everything
Had so much meaning
Naturally she was death-haunted.
All she wanted was to
Stop dreaming, but that being
An empty wish, she kept on drinking.
At least it made her woes delicious.
When the beer cans reached her ceiling
They started breeding, of course.
More chaos, more meaning.
She was as fecund as fear
And beer was her semen. So
If you are death-haunted too,
Don't drink beer, dear, or like
Mother Goose you might forget
How to cry out "Enough!", go berserk,
Sleep with your sons as soon as theyre born
And slip down and break your hip in the afterbirth.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375404856
• ISBN 13: 9780375404856
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 89
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