
Rain Rider
David Briggs(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 15. November 2013
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-907773-62-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rain Rider is a book of echoes and allusions, mirrors and reflections: words are signs that keep changing their position, taking new forms, suggesting new ideas, as they recur, recto/verso. Briggs's vision is essentially ludic and irreverent, whether he's evoking the plangent nostalgia of the Test Card, conjuring the Devil, or riffing on an artisan perfume. Rain Rider is a book of forms, of thought poured into vessels: it begins with a rain-filled chalice and closes with an upended urn of ashes. Through it all, in a returning sequence, we find archetypal figures - the Fool, the Hermit, the Mariner and Thief - as though running amok in the serifed leading of the typeface.
Reviews / Votes
What his new book shows is that his sense of poetic vocation has sharpened to a point at which a real kind of poetry makes its way through him, being shaped and shorn with enormous skill, but possessing its own life and duende. -- David MorleyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-907773-62-4 (9781907773624)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
David Briggs was born in 1972, and grew up in the New Forest. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, and his first collection, The Method Men (Salt, 2010) was shortlisted for the London Festival Poetry Prize. Rain Rider is his second collection. He lives, teaches and writes in Bristol.
Content
Rain Rider
Forecast
La Perochonniere
The Enigma of the Fool
And a Star
The Devil
Follow Me
The Hermit
Signifier and Signified
Quennet
Test Card
Green
The Fear
Florentine
Locals
Penlee
No Prisoners
Geography
The Fool Subject to Experiments
Hieratic
O
The Fool's Quest
Autobiographical Dissonance
When Sam Beckett
Liturgy
The Mariner
The Fool on Olympus
The Wedding
My Rival
Last Letter to Calliope
The Bridge
The Developer
The Thief
Temperance
Resolution
The Equation
The Fool's Wake
Forecast
La Perochonniere
The Enigma of the Fool
And a Star
The Devil
Follow Me
The Hermit
Signifier and Signified
Quennet
Test Card
Green
The Fear
Florentine
Locals
Penlee
No Prisoners
Geography
The Fool Subject to Experiments
Hieratic
O
The Fool's Quest
Autobiographical Dissonance
When Sam Beckett
Liturgy
The Mariner
The Fool on Olympus
The Wedding
My Rival
Last Letter to Calliope
The Bridge
The Developer
The Thief
Temperance
Resolution
The Equation
The Fool's Wake