Rain Rider

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37688874024
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Books
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12.99
book_author_name: 
Mr David Briggs
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Salt Publishing
published_date: 
15/11/2013
isbn: 
9781907773624
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Mr David Briggs|Hardback|Salt Publishing|15/11/2013
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9781907773624
Book Description: 
Rain Rider is a book of echoes and allusions, mirrors and reflections: words are signs that keep changing their position, taking new forms, suggesting new ideas, as they recur, recto/verso. Briggs’s vision is essentially ludic and irreverent, whether he’s evoking the plangent nostalgia of the Test Card, conjuring the Devil, or riffing on an artisan perfume. Rain Rider is a book of forms, of thought poured into vessels: it begins with a rain-filled chalice and closes with an upended urn of ashes. Through it all, in a returning sequence, we find archetypal figures – the Fool, the Hermit, the Mariner and Thief – as though running amok in the serifed leading of the typeface.

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