Standstill: A Hopewell Earthworks Daybook and Other Essays
- Author Name: Bruce Rice
- Publisher: Long Road Press
- Publication Date: 2024
- ISBN: 978-1-0689497-0-8
- Author Website: https://www.brucericewriter.com
About the Book
Standstill is a collection one experiences. Bruce Rice's often luminous journal takes us on a journey through Ohio’s two-thousand-year-old Hopewell Earthworks, which include the largest geometric earthworks in the world. It asks how can we respond authentically to such places and what they awaken in ourselves. But these are also the landscapes of a writer who lives in the present. Rice's moving and evocative stories show us art that has saved lives—sometimes hundreds of lives—and a social history of those who literally have lost their power of speech. These are scenes that affirm the best that is in us and the persistence of beauty.
About the Author
Bruce Rice is a previous Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, essayist, and editor. He has published six poetry collections, the most recent is The Vivian Poems (Radiant Press 2020), on the life and work of street photographer, Vivian Maier. Ranging from family stories, the vanishing prairie and the North, to the Statue of Liberty, art is a presence in most of his work. Bruce writes about community, reclaiming the voices of those who live on the margins, and how we are transformed by landscape even as we leave our footprints on it. He lives in Regina on Treaty 4 Territory, and homeland of the Métis Nation.