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Stan Rice is the author of six earlier collections of poetry, including The Radiance of Pigs, 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.
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"Behold the door / the lock's alive," warns Stan Rice in one of the precise, commanding poems that make up his latest volume of verse.
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. From the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras to the private chambers of the imagination, Rice sings of the darkness that conflicts us and of the moments of pure consciousness that allow us to transcend darkness.
"I have long loved Stan Rice's poems. He is an absolute master of the minimum, the deeply suggestive, the terrifying. He doesn't write with any self-congratulatory self-consciousness, but out of deep knowledge, for which I am grateful." --Gerald Stern
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