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Red to the Rind

By Stan Rice

By Stan Rice

By Stan Rice

By Stan Rice

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Jun 07, 2005 | ISBN 9780375709791

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Nov 13, 2013 | ISBN 9780307543868

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    About Red to the Rind

    “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.

    About Red to the Rind

    “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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    About Stan Rice

    Stan Rice (1942–2002) was the author of seven collections of poetry, including Red to the Rind, Fear Itself, and The Radiance of Pigs. For many years he was a professor at San Francisco State University. He received the Edgar Allan… More about Stan Rice

    About Stan Rice

    Stan Rice (1942–2002) was the author of seven collections of poetry, including Red to the Rind, Fear Itself, and The Radiance of Pigs. For many years he was a professor at San Francisco State University. He received the Edgar Allan… More about Stan Rice

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Knopf
    Jun 07, 2005 | 112 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/8 | ISBN 9780375709791

    Category: Poetry | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Knopf
    Nov 13, 2013 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780307543868

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    "I have long loved Stan Rice’s poems. He is an absolute master of the minimum, the deeply suggestive, the terrifying. He doesn’t write with any self-congratulatory self-consciousness, but out of deep knowledge, for which I am grateful." 
    –Gerald Stern

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