About the Author

V. B. Price has been publishing poetry since 1962 and has worked continuously as a reporter and an environmental and political columnist for nearly as long. He has received the New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award for contributions to the life of the poetry community in New Mexico and the Southwest. He lives in Albuquerque.

Reviews

"In his introduction to Lucretius and the Logic of Venus, V. B. Price takes us with him on a drive up the Pacific Coast Highway north of Santa Monica. One moment it's the twenty-first century and we are fleeing the heat and smog of Los Angeles, the next it's the year 79 before our era and we are heading from Rome down to the Bay of Naples. We are with Lucretius, who is 'in the midst of writing his vast poem on Venus and physics, atoms and their unaccountable swerving, and the mysteries of managing pleasure and pain.' In the densely loaded collection that follows, Price digs deep into his own experience in a context that embraces science and language, knowledge and feeling, anguish and memory. We are left breathless and grateful. This is a book to return to when we wonder-in these difficult times-if life is possible or worth the effort. These stunning poems convince us that the answer to both questions is yes."-Margaret Randall, author of Vertigo of Risk
"A reminder that pleasure and delight and wonder are worthy experiences in themselves, that curiosity and joy warrant poems as much as sorrow and grief do. I found myself nodding and smiling the way I do when listening to a brilliant song for the first time. There's power and beauty in Price's work. This-this is the book the world needs right now."-Zach Hively, author of Owl Poems