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Centered on recurring themes of sleep and sleeplessness, this delicate collection of poetry explores the nuances of human relationships. Beginning provocatively with a “translation” of Shakespeare's 18th sonnet, the poems offer witty, tender, and lyrical reflections on the intricate suffusion of desire within both private and public forms of expression. Exploring the consequences of passion, this heartfelt work captures the exuberance—and struggle—of human love.
Richard Price
Richard Price is the author of several novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire.
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Rays - Richard Price
RICHARD PRICE
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Acknowledgements
Some of the poems in this collection first appeared in the following limited editions Earliest Spring Yet (Landfill Press), Lute Variations (Rack Press), and little but often (with Ronald King, Circle Press). Some have appeared in Atlas, Booklight (Knucker Press), fragmente, Markings, PN Review, Poetry International, R.U. Taking the Biscuit? (University of Reading), The Thing That Mattered Most (Scottish Poetry Library), and The Times Literary Supplement: my thanks to all the editors involved.
‘Wake Up and Sleep’ was commissioned by Lavinia Greenlaw in a project by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in association with the Royal Society of Medicine, and a version was first published in Signs and Rumours published by the Foundation. My thanks to Dr Peter Venn for discussing his work on the treatment of sleep disorders. Wake Up and Sleep was later developed as a limited edition artists’ book in collaboration with the artist Caroline Isgar.
A number of the ‘Songs for the Loss Adjusters’ have been set to music by Caroline Trettine and recorded by Mirabeau.
Dorothy Stirling’s Passing Acquaintance was painted specifically for this collection and is reproduced here with kind permission – and in admiration.
My thanks, too, to David K. for reading and commenting on the manuscript of this book.
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Freehold
Wake Up and Sleep
The thought keeps counting
Continuous Positive Air Pressure
Wake up and sleep
Lute Variations
Your eyes translate me
From the moment
Lute, companion
Earliest Spring Yet
About this
The idea
Manet with Mardy
Formal
Melancholy plumber
A shape, the past
Off, on
As if a song
Babyshambles
Resonant frequency
Channel Link
A century find
Volume
Shells
Internationalist
Earliest spring yet
Flax
Shades on
Wren
Age of Exploration
The long low structure
Dippers –
Languor’s Whispers
Songs for the Loss Adjusters
Parkway
Work’s over
Trackside fires
Ambulance work
Two halves of nothing
Last train, full of couples
I’m writing to write again
[Hidden track]
little but often
Rhyme nor Reason
The Line
Countless
Informer (1)
Informer (2)
Informer (3)
The line
Griefy train
The snow gets it
Waymoat
Ties
Darkness and Dazzle
Question time
Darkness and dazzle
Rotavator
Non-reflective glass
Like a student gardener
Golden Key
About the Author
Also by Richard Price from Carcanet Press
Copyright
Freehold
A summer’s day? – you’re
lovelier… You’re… more gentle.
Gales shake May’s sweetheart buds,
summer holds a short-term lease –
one minute the sun is foundry hot,
the next all gold is lost.
The season’s fairs, too, so easily decline – bad luck reigns,
rivers reclaim their rightful plain.
But your summer won’t dim, won’t flood,
you won’t lose, love, the celebration
your self-contained self, almost by itself, contains.
Death