Bruce Rice Writer
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Standstill: A Hopewell Earthworks Daybook and Other Essays
Standstill is a pilgrimage--from Ohio's two-thousand-year-old Hopewell Earthworks, to art that has literally saved lives, and a social history of those who have lost their power of speech. These scenes affirm the best that is in us and the persistence of beauty.
The Vivian Poems
These vivid and generous poems take on the story of Vivian Maier, whose life's work legacy of over 140,000 prints and negatives was almost lost in a storage auction. Rice challenges the mythology in which Maier had no say.
Life in the Canopy
Life in the Canopy is brimming with prairie life. Beautifully matched with Cherie Westmoreland’s colour photos, Canopy was shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book of the Year.
The Trouble with Beauty
“Given all we have done to the lands that we live in, is it still possible to write honestly about beauty?” There are no theatrics here, just full attentiveness to the land.
The Illustrated
Statue of Liberty
Told in the voice of Faith, a painter obsessed the Statue of Liberty, these poems and stunning historical photographs explore America both as the imagined destination and its history of exclusion, as Faith's struggles with her art and mental illness.
Descent into Lima
Dense and full of musicality, these poems move easily through cultures and time, in a search for self that travels from Peru to the Canadian Prairies. There's also Anne, in and out of hospital as she struggles with madness, who sends letters to Frida Kahlo that shouldn’t be missed.
Daniel
Starting with Rice's great-great-grandmother, Margaret (who eloped twice with the same man), Daniel explores how the spiritual struggles of one generation carry on into and transform the next. This "tour de force of voice" received the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry .