The Collected Poems

The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings guides and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions The Laws of Ice and The Use of Fire -- and adds a new volume The Unaccountable Worth of the World eighty-five more recent poems that offer striking departures as they continue to embody Price's close attention to the exterior and the interior worlds of a lengthening and unexpectedly complex life.The Collected Poems reveals throughout the accumulated variety of Reynolds Price's years as a poet -- the thematic breadth formal steadiness narrative vitality and intense lyricism that have marked his work from the start. It is a landmark in a creative life that now includes more than thirty books -- poems novels plays essays translations -- and in the span of contemporary American verse.