Stan Rice
Stan Rice ( born November 7, 1942 in Dallas, Texas, † December 9, 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American poet and painter.
Life
Stan Rice was born in 1942 as the son of Stanley and Margaret Rice. His siblings included a brother, Larry Rice, and the two sisters Nancy Rice Diamond and Cynthia Rice Rogers. He was the husband of writer Anne Rice, with whom he became the father of two children: one daughter, Michelle ( born September 21, 1966; † August 5, 1972 ), and a son, the writer Christopher Rice (born 1978 ).
Rice was a professor of English and Creative Writing and deputy director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Until 1989, he was there also Chairman of the Creative Writing Department.
After Rice retired in 1988, he devoted himself entirely to writing and painting.
On December 9, 2002, he died at the age of 60 of a brain tumor. He was buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
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- Stan Rice served as an external model on trumped by his wife Anne Rice Vampire Lestat.
- Among his eight collections of poetry, also includes Some Lamb, in which he processed his grief over the death of those who died from leukemia at the age of five years, daughter Michelle and expresses.
Works
Poetry collections
- Some Lamb, 1975
- Whiteboy, 1976
- Body of Work, 1983
- Singing Yet: New and Selected Poems, 1992
- Fear Itself 1997
- The Radiance of Pigs, 1999
- Red of the ox, 2002
- False Prophet, 2003 ( published posthumously )
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- Paintings, 1997