Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems

By Stan Rice

Book Overview

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679411453
• ISBN13: 9780679411451
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The bitterness and the cynicism.. rivaling even Eliot

Stan Rice's sardonic bitterness rivals even that of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece, "The Wasteland." This expansive volume of his work includes numerous examples of the extreme exhaustion and weariness of life that echoes throughout Rice's work. Poems like "Poem on Crawling into Bed: Bitterness" are exemplary of Rice's style, his bitter cynicism and his often-times harsh sarcasm. Also common to Rice's work is a rich imagery of animals, gods, and angels. But he uses these with a twist, and an often cynical one at that. He uses these images in an effort to understand the nature of humanity: where we've come from, where we are, and what we've done wrong. Rice's masterful use of language, metaphor, imagery, and unexpected rhyme make his work a pleasure to read, and his themes are universal ones that demand to be dealt with. Rice attacks these issues head-on with a harsh and bitter sense of consciousness.