Moon for Sale E-Book

Richard Price

• Herausgeber: Carcanet Poetry
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Moon for Sale

RICHARD PRICE

                 Look, the bright full moon                  is the town clock, its dark hands                  missing, robbed for scrap.

HOW A BOOK COULD BE

This is how a book could be –

tonight it’s ballet, tomorrow

apply a different progression code

within the hyperlex transfer protocol.

There’ll be a future name for a flicker render, mimicking film.

It’s fine, you can theorise in poetry,

sing analysis in. There’s lyric in the language of the intellect –

lyric can be intelligent, breathing out a thought, attentive adoration.

This is how a page could be –

mostly white space for the text wall, and the windows varying in size, varied in shape,

colour saturation, force of light.

It is all dancing and stage-build today, rich reds by design,

but you can still cherish resolving in the eye / hands.

Tomorrow this is how pauses work

This is how ellipses…

and now dashes –

          positioning, movement

                                      and you make it all a performance –

Would you like to buy this programme?

(The contents resemble everything I once wanted, worked for, resemble…

nothing you could have seen before,

                                                 and now they’re all alight.)

THE PRICE

Remember when a poem could be banned

            for beginning with the word ‘Remember’? –