Moon for sale / Richard Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Richard, 1966- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

The poems in Richard Price's Moon for Sale delight in linguistic play, turning over sound and sense with gleeful dexterity. But they are equally visually sensitive: Price's lyricism speaks as much to a cinematic sensibility as to a poetic one, to Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, to the carefully braided documentaries of Viera Cakányová, and to the elegiac filmscapes of Margaret Tait. In the shadow of a culture in which even the moon is up for auction, Moon for Sale records the decadence of our times by incorporating and repurposing that culture's language. At the same time a haven of meaning is sought in the erotic, in the intimate transactions between bodies, that 'rush of unclevering' which both simplifies and intensifies the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

How a Book Could Be 9

The Price 10

Butterfly Dream 14

Musicals, Animation, Romantic Comedy 15

Motorway and Track 17

They Named the Trees, Flowers and Mushrooms in the New Wilderness 18

Snailmail 21

Every Shadow Has a Shadow 24

Not That I'm Saying Anything 25

A Little Trouble 26

The Feathered Creatures Disturb Her Dreams 27

Late Enough 28

Her Tattoo Has Shifted 29

Cold Light of Day 32

Haiku + Tattoo = Taku 33

Dainty Opera 34

Wood Medicine 40

Too Kind 42

Hunt the Rain Down 45

The Two Girls Were Always Singing 47

Sad Pace for Schools 49

Inaccessible Island 50

With a Movement of the Hand 52

Medicate to Lessen 58

The Clouds Are Ships and Islands, The Mountains Are Islands and Ships, above a Calm Solid Sea 60

A Quiet River 61

Stork 62

Moonshot 63

The World Brims 64

These Choices Are Not Choices 66.

ISBN:

1784102849

9781784102845

OCLC:

968312019