False Prophet
Author | : Stan Rice |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2005-06-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780375710339 |
ISBN-13 | : 0375710337 |
Rating | : 4/5 (337 Downloads) |
Download or read book False Prophet written by Stan Rice and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stan Rice, who died in December 2002, was a poet of unique, uncompromising vision. Joy and brutality, faith and faithlessness, the beauty of truth and, at times, of untrut--these opposing forces come together one last time in his final book of poetry, a haunting collection of psalms. Beginning with his “Psalm 151”--that is, taking up where the Bible leaves off--Rice calls us to his own kind of prayer and contemplation. “Lord, hear me out,” he begins. “At the point of our need / The storehouse shares its shambles.” An elegant, passionate, tragic lament for our condition, Rice’s homemade psalms exhort us indirectly to accept our fate--the world as it is. In the brave, unshrinking manner that has characterized his whole career, Rice has written a profound farewell.