Red to the Rind

Rice, Stan

ISBN 10: 0375413685 / ISBN 13: 9780375413681

Published by Knopf, 2002

About this Item

Several small scuffs and creases to dust jacket. Otherwise, very clean, sound, copy. 97 pgs. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author. First Edition. Alfred A. Knopf. NY. 2002. NEW clear mylar sleeve protects jacket.

Seller Inventory # red4aRIND

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red to the Rind
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375413685
• ISBN 13: 9780375413681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Signed
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

“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 the Author

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.