Description: The Collected Poems brings together Reynolds Price's previously published volumes of poetry (Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, The Use of Fire, and selections from his ongoing poetic journal "Days and Nights") as well as previously uncollected poems whose topics include, among many others, the life and death (from AIDS) of a longtime friend. At least nine of the 80 new poems included here have appeared before in Poetry, Shendandoah, The Southern Review, The News and Observer, and Double Take. And one of the new poems -- representative of the vital and personal nature of this collection -- was chosen by Adrienne Rich and David Lehman for inclusion in the 1996 edition of Best American Poetry.

Spanning decades of literary achievement, in The Collected Poems Reynolds looks inward and outward, meditating on topics from contemporary celebrities to the larger questions of life and its meaning. This modern classic is a milestone not only in Price's creative life but in the span of contemporary American poetry as well.

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