
Bruce Rice Writer
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR STANDSTILL
“A charming and wise book. These meditations blend points of view and moments of awareness with ease across time, cultures, and species. The resulting wholeness, formed out of awkward human life, is graceful and extraordinary.”
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—Harold Rhenisch, author of Salmon Shanties and The Art of Haying: A Journey to Iceland
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“I’ve long admired the breadth of Bruce Rice’s sophisticated poetry, and now, with Standstill, I can attest that his creative nonfiction is equally diverse—and even more satisfying. This is Rice on pilgrimage: the precise observations of and gentle engagement with birds and ‘maples illuminated in their autumn haloes’; the intimate confessions and surprising ironies; the tenderness of a brother signing “slow” on his deaf sister’s wrist as she struggles in hospital to breathe. Standstill is a collection one experiences and this exemplary writer’s finest book to date.”
—Shelley A. Leedahl, author of Go, I Wasn’t Always Like This, and Listen, Honey
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“Bruce Rice’s carefully crafted essays take us deeper into what it is to be a brother, a friend, an artist in a fragmented world.”
—Trevor Herriot, author of The Economy of Sparrows and Towards a Prairie Atonement