Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
David Ricks’s poems have appeared in American magazines over the last three decades; a pamphlet of them, Shreds and Patches, was published by Rack Press in 2022. He has written about many of the modern Greek poets who matter and has published versions from the work of some.
<p>‘a master of verse form – as his stalwart collection With Signs Following shows – Ricks has a deep knowledge of the meaning of poetic translation and its role in literary production’, Nasos Vayenas, To Vima 30 June 2024</p>
With Signs Following, David Ricks’s first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades. - ‘It seems astonishing that this is David Ricks’s first full-length collection of poems, but then he has been in no haste, writing and polishing and storing up these gems over decades, even as he has laboured more publicly as a scholar of modern Greek literature. The result is a debut worth waiting for: formally adept, beautifully achieved poems that exist outside of the fluctuations of fashion, unabashedly serious, learned, and well crafted.’ — from the afterword by A. E. Stallings
With Signs Following, David Ricks’s first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades. With an afterword by A. E. Stallings.
‘In the poems of David Ricks, we’re listening in on the life of the developing lines in the very way the lines are listening to themselves. Line by line and stanza by stanza the lines are listening to themselves as they go along inventing what they’re saying. It’s all a product of the eloquence and the exactitude of his listening. His translations are brilliantly understood and take a great deal of pleasure in what they’re doing. This lyric concentration and the pleasure of making is characteristic of his work. When we hear his song, we’re listening to the song that listens to itself as it plays’ — David Ferry
‘Exceptional mastery of verse, and the perspective from which he views reality illuminates aspects of everyday life with a virtuosity that combines seriousness with wit. A truly resonant book of poetry.’ — Nasos Vayenas
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
David Ricks’s poems have appeared in American magazines over the last three decades; a pamphlet of them, Shreds and Patches, was published by Rack Press in 2022. He has written about many of the modern Greek poets who matter and has published versions from the work of some.