Red to the Rind
Published on 13. November 2013
112 pages
978-0-307-54386-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Behold the door / the lock's alive,” warns Stan Rice in one of the commanding poems that make up this new volume of verse. From the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras to the private chambers of the imagination, 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. In these concise, memorable verses, he contemplates the stroller-pushing crowd in the American mall; he maps the complex traffic of a marriage; he speaks to the cat bristling in the closet: "—for you, / For your on-tiptoe hissing / Slit-pupiled arched-backed tail- / Stiffened terror, this song.” Throughout, Rice sings of the darkness that conflicts us and of the moments of pure consciousness that allow us to transcend darkness.
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Stan Rice
Red to the Rind
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06/2005
Random House USA Inc
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Red to the Rind
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06/2002
Random House USA Inc
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Person
Stan Rice is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Radiance of Pigs, Fear Itself, and Singing Yet. He has been the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly a professor of English and Creative Writing and Chairman of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University, he now lives in New Orleans with his wife, the novelist Anne Rice.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Behold
- The Art Of Poetry
- The Strangeness
- No Wave Irrelevant
- What I Saw
- Garden Doghouse
- I Seek Her
- The Afterlife
- The Fragment Of Statue
- French Quarter Snapshot
- November In New Orleans
- Last Hours Of Mardi Gras
- In the Malls
- Middle-Class Trappings
- Good Neighbors Are A Blessing
- What Each Version Depends On
- The Rhythms
- The Great Subjective
- Poem Man Paralyzed
- And I Started To Laugh
- Eating Out
- The Round Argument
- Let Us Consider
- The Thought Of It
- Saying Goodnight
- The Trains
- The Goals
- What The Ants Taught Me
- Fan The Cycle
- Uphill Both Ways
- Mirror In The Cage
- The Honor
- Mass Grave
- The Creation Myth
- Nearly Dissolving
- Roasting The Pig
- The Ark Of Life
- Cat In Closet
- Song In Dog Time
- The Burning Ghat
- Mr Heade Went To Brazil
- 19th-Century New World Landscape Painting
- After The Rain
- Breaking Light
- Prayer To Nature
- Corporal Punishment
- Offspring
- Why Sex Exists
- Salt Or Sugar
- Apeman
- The Thinnest
- A Night At The Sleep Disorders Clinic
- We Can Predict The Future But Not The Present
- In The Future
- Look, How Numerous
- Red To The Rind
- The Chances
- The Underworld
- Dismemberments
- A Note About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
