Fear Itself

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Stan Rice's new book of poems is faithful to the strong, expressionist thrust of his most recent collection, Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems, published in 1992. Fear Itself is equally arresting in the ominous visions it invokes - as though the book's title is to be taken literally, and the reader to be both engaged and disquieted.
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Stan Rice's new book of poems is faithful to the strong, expressionist thrust of his most recent collection, Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems, published in 1992. Fear Itself is equally arresting in the ominous visions it invokes - as though the book's title is to be taken literally, and the reader to be both engaged and disquieted.
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"I have gone in/To bear witness/And report back:/Chaos, sir," says Rice in "The Report" early in this volume. It is no surprise, then, to find that in his fifth collection of poetry Rice is an expert practitioner of the paranoiac-surreal; he walks the disquieting dreamscape familiar from the work of such poets as Galway Kinnell and Charles Simic. Despite his occasional insistence on the abrasive and vulgar (a church congregation portrayed as "semen-and blood-spurting sticks" marks the low point of this manner), his true subject is the uneasy equation between horror and beauty, the "liquification of flame" and the "liquid of order." He is often capable of delivering the instructive surprises of the best poetry; in one poem, he writes of a "stream, like darjeeling"; in another, an old poet wants to "twist...like/Cellophane in flame." For most poetry collections.-Graham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Donna Seaman
As Rice's striking title implies, these are poems about fear, an emotion with a seemingly infinite spectrum of causes, symptoms, and effects. Rice writes about the fear of death, the sea, himself, violence, anger, the devil. He is afraid for a masochistic friend and afraid of the power of desire. "Fear is brighter than sea foam," Rice writes, and we pause to register this and find ourselves nodding. Rice takes us in unexpected directions as he catapults out of the ordinary into the philosophical. He's staunchly honest, blusteringly erotic (very male), and gruffly amusing. His efficient poems pivot on mind-seizing images--shadowy milk-white Greek statues, red threads, skeletons, an apelike God, the propulsion of spring--and a keen sense of place. Helpless in the grip of strong feelings and, at the same time, vaguely resentful, Rice is always hoping for illumination, instruction, escape. In "New York Twilight from 63rd Floor," a beautiful metaphysical poem full of longing, he declares, "All is gradual." Then, overcoming the fear of change, or perhaps plunging into its very essence, he prays, "If only I could never be the same."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679444411
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/28/1995
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 679
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.55 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Table of Contents

Two Weeks in Haiti 3
The Young Women 4
The Report 5
A Boy's Satan 6
April Again 8
Fear's Beauty 11
Pity the Lord 12
New York Twilight from 63rd Floor 13
The Poet at 70 14
Deadletters 15
By AIDS 22
Censorship 23
The Interruption 24
The Religious Life 25
Partial Data 27
The Preacher's Timing 28
The Girls' School Lawn 29
The Seeress 30
What No One Can Paint 31
Fear 32
The Jewish Virgin 33
Apples in the Outdoor Stall 34
Photos of My Father-in-law Sanding 35
Great the Lord's Gourd 36
Modernism 37
Living in New Orleans 38
Splitting the Mockingbird 39
Sheer Fears 40
Past Master 43
The Cartoon Mice 44
Falling Again 45
Not In New York 46
Graves During a Civil War 47
The White Shirts of Ocean Ave. Miami Beach 1992 48
Fear Forced Out 49
H.D. 50
The Angel 52
The Offering 53
Isaiah Speaks: Lust 54
The Pinpoint of Death 55
The Afterlife 56
The God 57
The Statues In the Athens Museum 58
Looking for an Apartment in New York 59
Regarding Torture 60
Former Life 61
Becoming a Goddess 62
Lost and Found 63
That Beauty 64
The Greek Statues 65
A Painting of Fire 66
Dear Sister 67
The Sea and I 68
Following Rainshower 69
Insomnia 70
Last Flames 71
Like a Man in a Tophat 72
A Country-Western Song 73
A Great Kazoo for One Killed by a Sniper 74
Entering Spring 75
The Path to Freedom 76
Awaiting Happiness 78
Tea Time 79
The Pages 80
Nothing New 81
Pity 82
Utterances Related by Blood 83
The Lovers 85
Autumn in New Orleans 86
The Catalog Goddesses 87
Touching 88
The Tapeworm 89
The Proud One 92
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