Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Rice, Stan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679747338 ISBN 13: 9780679747338

Publisher: Knopf, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of new and previously published poems by the winner of the Academy of American Poets Edgar Allan Poe Award offers generous selections from the poet's three previous collections.

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The 29th Month
3 A.m. Opening The Window
Advocating Melancholy
Aesthetic Theory
After Massacre
America The Beautiful
American Rain
Anne's Curls
Artist & Model
At The Movies
Authority
Blood
The Bones Of Woe
Breaking The Silence
Breakings
Cannibal
The Cry-bird Journey
Cycle
The Dazzles: 1
The Dazzles: 2
The Dazzles: 3
Deadletter I
Deadletter Ii
Deja Vu Again
The Doctrine Of Perception As Animal Hunger
Dog
The Dogchain Gang
Double Solitaire
Dying Goldfish
Eating It
Elegy
The Elephant House
Emotions
The Engines
Excess Is Ease
The Fall
Fear Of Homosexual Rape
The Feminine Principle
First Xmas After Daughterdeath
Five Rhymes
Forgetting Her Birthday
Found
Four Days In Another City: 1
Four Days In Another City: 2
Four Days In Another City: 3
Four Days In Another City: 4
Four Days In Another City: 5
Four Days In Another City: 6
Four Days In Another City: 7
Four Days In Another City: 8
Four Wolves
Fourth Of July In The Rich Man's House
Friends Like These
Gallon Aquarium
Getting Lost
Gone Fishing
Graffiti
He Who Waits
History: Madness
Homecoming
How Keep Dark And Pattern Off
I Called The Cow
I Ride The Flying Pig
Icy Gravy
The Iliad
In Debt
In The Hospital Courtyard
Incanto: 1
Incanto: 2
Incanto: 3
Incanto: 4
Irrational Monologues: 1
Irrational Monologues: 2\
Irrational Monologues: 3
Irrational Monologues: 4
Irrational Monologues: 5
Irrational Monologues: 6
Is It Natural
Jonathan (samuel (abner) (ibid And His Last Words
Key To The Cow
The Last Supper
The Literati
Local Deity
Look!
Looking At The Moon During Third Moonwalk
Looking Out
Madness Of Chance
Madness: Fullgrown
Making It Go Away
Metaphysical Shock While Watching A Tv Cartoon
Michele Fair
Mommie Swims
Monkey Hill
Nature Poems
Ndaaya
Note To Ezra
Of Heaven: 1
Of Heaven: 2
Of Heaven: 3
Of Heaven: 4
Of Heaven: 5
Of Heaven: 6
Of Nothing
The Old Woman
The Palm Trees Of Las Vegas
Pessimism: The Birds
The Photographs
Playing In The Yard
Poem Following Discussion Of Brain
Poem On Crawling Into Bed: Bitterness
Poems And Marriage
The Proposition
The Rain Of Reason
Rearview
The Scapegoat
Singing Death
The Skyjacker
The Sleep
Slobtime
Snakemarriage
Some Lamb
Song
Songfest
Sonnet
Sonnet
Storming Out
Surviving
Sweetmeat
Tenderness
Testimonial
Texas Suite: 1. Allnight Hamburger Stand In Dangerous
Texas Suite: 2. The Garage
Texas Suite: 3. The Questions
Texas Suite: 4. The Lawn
Texas Suite: 5. The Cherries
Texas Suite: 6. The Actual
Texas Suite: 7. The Flea Market
Texas Suite: 8. The Fishing
Their Share
There It Is
Thunder & Rain
Time In Tool
To The Turns
The Tongue
Trying To Feel It
The Two Dreams
Up Against The Wall
Waiting In The Cafe
Walking With My Son To The Creek In The Dark Which He Fears
What Happened In The Hallway
What Happened When The Milk Came Out
What Is Your Prediction? No One Will Know The Future
Whiteboy
Widows
The Words Once
Wreckage
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

From Library Journal

Rice, a low-profile West Coast poet with three small-press books to his name, has now published this volume of new and selected poems with a major New York house. His first book in nine years, it may well expand the audience for his intense, painfully bright poems, which often recall Roethke: "Jane was my jam/ The movement of fish/ fleshed out her dress." While Rice often exhibits a dry wit, his work is dead serious. The bruised center of this collection is the death of a young daughter from leukemia, a loss that is dealt with directly in the selections from White Boy (Mudra, 1975) and Some Lamb (Figures, 1975) and that continues to surface in many later poems. Indeed, one sometimes fears that the poet's concentration was irrevocably shattered by the event. But in the newer poems--the quietly moving "Walking with My Son to the Creek in the Dark Which He Fears" or the coldy humorous "Icy Gravy" ("I have seen the ladle/ rise and fall/ from the icy cradle")--Rice seems to have marshaled his powers again. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
- Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib . , New York
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Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679747338
• ISBN 13: 9780679747338
• Binding: Paperback