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Rays
About this book
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.
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Earliest Spring Yet
About this
An intrusion? – to think of you
walking and thinking, walking and
not thinking – of me –
I guess.
I…
hope not
(an intrusion,
not not thinking…
of…).
A ‘double positive’? –
thinking thinking? Thinking thinking
this way?
The idea
I know I can’t mean
as much to you
as you me. I
don’t know. Your
meaning, your
meaning. Nothing
is secure, the idea.
Boundlessness.
Short of breath.
I know there’s who
and there’s… the idea,
the idea of who. I
don’t know. ‘I
don’t-feel-the-same-way’ –
but you
trust me – entrust
confidences –
are right to.
A friendship of months
yet I kiss
as a friend,
almost a friend,
of years. I…
‘try-to-keep-things-light’
and I hope.
Manet with Mardy
We laughed
at a masterpiece.
The subject
became the word.
I saw
pride at least –
(strength, strength
in the absurd) –
met
the glance’s claim…
‘Love times laughs!’
‘Full light!’
‘Mardy’,
my name…
for ‘Mardy’,
not here tonight.
Formal
Waking without you.
I love you like sleep.
Left the radio on, dance
coming down.
A formal kiss –
everyone touches
more these days –
that formal first kiss.
Yesterday today.
The last?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Freehold
- Wake Up and Sleep
- Lute Variations
- Earliest Spring Yet
- Languor’s Whispers
- Songs for the Loss Adjusters
- little but often
- Rhyme nor Reason
- The Line
- Darkness and Dazzle
- Rotavator
- Golden Key
- About the Author
- Also by Richard Price from Carcanet Press
- Copyright