A very nice, clean copy of “The Clock Flower” by Adrian Rice. Inscribed “for Gary” in 2015 on the title page. Publisher:‎ Press 53, Winston Salem, NC. 2013. Stated “First Edition.” Paperback. 119 numbered pages.

Dimensions: 9 x 6 inches. No sign of use. [I did not scan any of the inside, because I did not want to cause any damage. Please excuse the photographs I took of the inside which I did without opening it very far.]

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About the Author: Adrian Rice is from Northern Ireland, born just north of Belfast, in Whitehouse, Newtownabbey, County Antrim. He graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA in English & Politics, and MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. He has delivered writing workshops, readings, and lectures throughout the UK & Ireland, and the U.S. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Mason’s Tongue, which was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize and nominated for the Irish Times Prize for Poetry. Adrian now lives with his wife and their young son in Hickory, North Carolina, from where he commutes to Boone for Doctoral studies at Appalachian State University.

“Adrian Rice's new volume, The Clock Flower, ranges from the lovely opening sequence and his native ground of Northern Ireland in ‘The Moongate Sonnets’ to his chosen ground of North Carolina in the section, ‘Hickory Station,’ and concludes with the grimly hilarious poems that lament sectarianism back in the North through the sequence ‘Eleventh Night.’ Throughout, what impresses are the ways in which Rice adroitly wrings heartfelt emotions out of carefully constructed forms, demonstrating his deep commitment to the marriage of form and content. Rice draws on a variety of colloquial sources from the autobiographical and ribald in poems such as ‘Sniper’ and ‘Tour of Fire,’ along with the learned and refined in poems like ‘Verruca’ that compare a Belfast tramp to Beckett's archetypal homeless characters. The Clock Flower demonstrates poetry's ability to be breaking news, as Rice's carefully tuned cultural antennae enable him to speak to what is past, passing, and yet to come in our fluid world.     —Richard Rankin Russell (2012 Centennial Professor of English, Baylor University, and author of Poetry and Peace:  Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press.)

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