The Collected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Reynolds Price
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Dreams, Emotions, Surgery or surgeons, Death or dying, Biblical times, Jesus Christ, AIDS, Senses or sensation, Tumors, Touch
The first sentence of Reynolds Price’s preface to The Collected Poems, although it is written in prose, alerts readers to the lyricism of what is to follow. This sentence reads, “I was twelve years old when I began to encounter poems more demanding than the jingles of childhood and the nonsense lyrics of popular songs.” The rhythm, elegance, and eloquence of this sentence recur throughout the more than three hundred poems collected in this extensive volume.
Although most of the poems presented here are narrative, wholly in keeping with Price’s conviction that the...
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