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PublisherCarcanet Press, The Limited

ISBN-101784102849

ISBN-139781784102845

eBay Product ID (ePID)235722216

Product Key Features

Book TitleMoon for Sale

Number of Pages72 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenrePoetry

AuthorRichard Price

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight4.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821.92

SynopsisPrice's most 'live' or 'performative' work to date, the poems in Moon for Sale are sensual and shapeshifting and unfold like a series of haunting dreams. The collection begins with a poem about the artist David Bomberg and his groundbreaking book Russian Ballet in which poetry, art, and live performance are all reimagined for a contemporary audience. This is key to the whole collection, where the borderlines between the lyric, art, and life are hypnotically blurred., Prices most live or performative work to date, the poems in Moon for Sale are sensual and shapeshifting and unfold like a series of haunting dreams. The collection begins with a poem about the artist David Bomberg and his groundbreaking book Russian Ballet in which poetry, art, and live performance are all reimagined for a contemporary audience. This is key to the whole collection, where the borderlines between the lyric, art, and life are hypnotically blurred., Prices most live or performative work to date, the poems in Moon for Sale are sensual and shapeshifting and unfold like a series of haunting dreams. The collection begins with a poem about the artist David Bomberg and his groundbreaking book Russian Ballet in which poetry, art, and live performance are all reimagined for a contemporary ......, 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.

LC Classification NumberPR6066.R543