The Radiance of Pigs: Poems

Stan Rice

ISBN 10: 0375404856 / ISBN 13: 9780375404856

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999

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All of us have a story to tell. Some of us decided to become carpenters, farmers, or make music as musicians. Some of us decided to become teachers, nurses, doctors, or soldiers, and a few of us became writers. Across our diverse neighborhoods, and communities all of us serve in one capacity or another. All of us make our mark as we go about our lives, but as we live, and breathe, a pervasive killer stalks our families, and communities. All of us work together to create a diverse tapestry of life, across our modern society, and while we busy ourselves to create a diverse, complex society this killer does not discriminate Suicide kills carpenter, farmers, and musicians. It claims the lives of teachers, nurses, and soldiers daily.It kills our young, and life-experienced seniors. It also kills the random face of the stranger who stood in front of you at a checkout line as you waited for your coffee yesterday, and it's killed some of our favorite celebrities. Faces we associated with success, and happiness. I'm a writer, and I hope my story serves as an intervention. Suicide is 100% preventable. There are resources we can access on a local level if anyone needs support, and some of these resources are as easily accessable such as texting, or calling 988. 24/7 the 988 crisis support line is available for you.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Radiance of Pigs: Poems
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375404856
• ISBN 13: 9780375404856
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Stan Rice's poems are outside the circle of coventional poetry in their adherence to the strong, expressionist drive which makes his work so interesting as well as entirely his own.

People tend to have strong opinions about his work, which led Publisher's Weekly to describe an
earlier volume of new and selected poems, Singing Yet, as "serious stuff, urgent and original."

His last book, Fear Itself, in its wild unpredictability, received praise from Graham Christian in Library Journal as follows: "Rice is an expert practitioner of the paranoiac-surreal; he walks the disquieting dreamscape familiar from the work of such poets as Galway Kinnell and Charles Simic . . . His true
subject is the uneasy equation between horror and beauty, the 'liquification of flame' and the horror of order. He is often capable of delivering the instructive surprises of the best poetry."

The same doomsday energy and observation suffuse his new work.

About the Author

Stan Rice is the author of five collections of poetry, including Fear Itself and Singing Yet. For many years he was associated with San Francisco State University, where he was Professor of English and Creative Writing, Assistant Director of the Poetry Center, and Chairman of the Creative Writing Department. He has been the recipient of the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a writing fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, the novelist Anne Rice.