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Come read for yourself why James Laughlin Prize winner David Rivard's newest book solidifies him as one of our best and most enduring poets. With poems that are both deeply personal and enticingly universal, Some of You Will Know, startles the heart and invites the mind to play. With a controlled hand, Rivard guides us into a world that shows what words can do. Of Rivard's work, Robert Pinsky tells us, "The speed of mind, compressing details a...

The unillusioned, effervescent new collection by David Rivard, whose poetry "leaves me with a desire to be permanently friends with this mysterious kind of grace" (Tomaz Salamun)"That the sun stands apartfrom all that it abuts, unwilling to judge it, may be our only real hope." --from "We Either Do or Don't, But the Problem Evolves Anyway" In "Sugartown, " David Rivard's fourth collection, the poems unwind with the speed of urgent talk, detail...

I often feel as though I've entered a standoff between whathappens around me & what's going on inside--& this lifethat goes on & on inside my head goes on & on & on it seemsalmost without me, as it has since childhood . . . --from "Standoff"For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we spe...

A kind of "public dreaming" takes place via the music of these poems--a music as likely to visit the long-dead ghosts of the Kwakiutl tribe as Gianni Versace, and as interested in the baby seat of a car as it is in a boxing ring. Building on the critical success of David Rivard's two earlier, award-winning books, "Bewitched Playground" widens both his emotional aperture and formal range. Rivard calls it "my book of domestic voodoo"--not a book...

The expansive, energetic new poetry book by David Rivard, author of Sugartown and Wise PoisonYou pay as you go. Mornings at this point are either like spread sails or (more likely) spread-sheets-they fill fast. Mornings are fortunes, but as suspect as a wristwatch running in reverse. -from "Vigorish" David Rivard's new collection Otherwise Elsewhere describes the many powers-psychological and historical-that flow through people's lives in acts...

In "Wise Poison" David Rivard gives us a mind hard at work on the most vital questions: Who am I? What do I love? What can be trusted? At issue in these passionate arguments with the self are the "curious forces" that surround us in every part of our lives. In an airport lounge in the Yucatan, in the song of a street musician, or simply in the pulsing of skin along the neck, Rivard finds connections and doubt, and reason for both comfort and r...