False Prophet (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Stan Rice
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: The persona, God
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, Religion, God, Human race, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Theology
- Locales: United States
In the sixty-four poems of his book of poetry False Prophet, the late poet Stan Rice imagines a persona who talks to God about the problems humanity faces. Rice, who was married to the novelist Anne Rice until his death from brain cancer in December, 2002, decided to call these poems psalms, like the 150 psalms contained in the Christian Bible. His first poem is called “Psalm 151,” its number beginning where the Bible left off. Throughout all the poems, Rice follows a stream-of-consciousness pattern. His images, only loosely related to one another, echo biblical themes,...
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