Book description
Teasing, funny and celebratory - Rays is a wry and tender lover's
gift. Continuing Richard Price's virtuosic playfulness of form, it
improvises on the formal shape of sonnet and canzone, charging them
with the energy of blues and rock, glimpsing narratives of desire. In
a restless, sleepless landscape where language becomes shrill, an
alphabet of love poems creates a dreamy island, between the solace of
haiku and the precisions of Emily Dickinson. The Renaissance poet
Louise Labé and an imaginary band, The Loss Adjusters, sing the
complex beauties of passion.
'Rays makes three books in five years for Price, but his productivity
hardly seems excessive; this is writing with a firework-fizz of urgency
in its tail... Rays is a book to read late into the night.' - David
Wheatley, The Guardian, 31 October 2009 Richard Price was born in 1966
and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College,
Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow. The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, he was a
founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields.
He is also the co-founder of Vennel Press, the imprint which brought
many of the earlier Informationist collections to a wider audience. He
is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London.
