Lucky Day [Paperback]

Richard Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2005

Natural landscapes through which love and lyricism flicker and flare are the backdrop for these poems. The sparrows, pigeons, and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere as they edge the collection toward the city in the humorous elegy "Bird List," while "Hand Held," a personal and vulnerable piece, delicately celebrates the author's experience of fathering a child with severe learning difficulties. The collection is filled out with pieces of love and memory, affirming in the end the luck intrinsic to survival.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packed into often short, complex lyrics. There is a tension in reading his poems which is created by his care for words, by the integrity of his distillation.' Carol Ann Duffy 'A recurrent theme is relationships of family and sex, where, as in life, what is not said, or half said, is as important as what is actually said, and the gaps, the repetitions, the phrases skating off into silence, the catspaw punctuation are deployed with great skill to keep a reader's mind active in tracing the tingly cataclysmic moves of love and anxiety.' Edwin Morgan

About the Author

Richard Price is the youngest of the Informationist group of poets, and a founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields. He is the head of Modern British Collections at the British Library in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857547616
• ISBN-13: 978-1857547610
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,649,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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