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In Ricky Ray's debut collection, Fealty , the world quickly reveals itself as more complex and mysterious than we imagined. In poems surreal, feral, visceral, and yet tender, moving, and wise, Ray guides us through themes of love, death, animism, fidelity, belonging, and care. There is something of the ancients in his consciousness, which continually reminds us that we not only inhabit the earth, but are movements of the earth itself.
Inventiveness, lyricism and mystery—I like the way he plays with memory and finally catches memory off its guard. — Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer laureate and author of Late Wife
Ever in service to poetry, Ricky Ray's Fealty is a harrowing inquest into the connective tissue between self and other. The outlines and boundaries of being materialize and dissipate in turns in his poetic worlds. The self shifts; the self inhabits other selves; the spirit can possess and be possessed. Each blade of grass, each lightning strike, each pool of blood, each log fresh from the chopping block pulses with the poet's heartbeat, which he in turn freely feeds to the wolves and horses, the unwanted animals, the struggling, the decaying and the dead. In probing and electrifying verse, Ricky Ray's poems offer a bounty of a world in which every heartbreak, every brokenness, every death and despair transform into this very necessary living being of a book. — Jenny Boully, author of The Body: An Essay
Ricky Ray was born in Florida and educated at Columbia University. He is the founding editor of Rascal: a Journal of Ecology, Literature and Art. His awards include the Cormac McCarthy Prize, the Ron McFarland Poetry Prize, the Fortnight Poetry Prize, and a Whisper River Poetry Prize. His work has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies, and he lives in Harlem with his wife, three cats, and a Labradetter. Their bed, like any good home of the heart, is frequently overcrowded.
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Seller: Paradou Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, 136 pgs. Some corner wear. Seller Inventory # ABE-1764861094631