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008			110913s1997 nyu 001 0 eng
010			_a96053117
020			_a0684832038
050	0	0	_aPS3566.R54 _bA6 1997
082	0	0	_a811.54 PRI
100	1		_aPrice, Reynolds _d, 1933-2011
240	1	0	_aPoems. Selections.
245	1	4	_aThe collected poems _c/ Reynolds Price
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, c1997.
300			_axxiv, 471 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aSome readers may not know that novelist Price (Promise of Rest) is also a verse craftsman. Some of the poems in this substantial volume recall friends and relations dead, many lost in recent years to AIDS; a considerable portion of the volume is given to a continuing verse diary, "Days and Nights," which unflinchingly records Price's long struggle with spinal cancer and consequent paraplegia, as well as the dreams, memories, and fantasies that accompanied his illness. Notable also are his graceful imitations of poetry by Goethe, Holderlin, Stefan George, and others. Price has always stood apart from contemporary movements in poetry, and although it is true that he is not a technical innovator, it would be perilous to ignore him: he has a rare facility for making the strange familiar, and the familiar fresh. Compassionate and candid, Price seems likely to reach an audience unusually wide for contemporary poetry with this generous collection.
650		4	_aPoetry, American
942			_cMO
999			_c229562 _d229562