Lover’s Guide to Trapping

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is that she be let in. And there are others who populate the pages of this book, one stray cat, one ghost, but many who are human-soldiers, prisoners, wide-eyed children, matriarchs, Verdi in despair over having cast a plump Violetta who cannot play her role as a consumptive. All of those described here are vulnerable, some of them searingly so, and all are acutely aware of just how angular their worlds can be, whether accompanied by terror or hilarity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-27
Mått:140 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Antal sidor:72
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801892790

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Wyatt Prunty is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, also published by Johns Hopkins. His critical studies include Fallen from the Symboled World and a forthcoming collection of essays focused on poetry since World War II. He is the founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference and holds the Carlton Chair in poetry at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has served as the general editor of the Sewanee Writers' Series, edited Sewanee Writers on Writing, and directs the Tennessee Williams Fellowship program. He is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, the two most recent being fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations.

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These poems have depth and richness of observation that repels easy emotion and compel-and reward-repeated reading. Booklist In his eighth book of verse, Wyatt Prunty's low-keyed eloquence conveys an authentic ache that more declamatory poets sometimes miss. Times Literary Supplement 2009

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IMoleBig Dog, Little DogHouse WrenSpencerian HandLast CenturyStazione CentraleIncident in the SublimeThe Returning DeadCircusAlbumen Silver Print from Glass Negative outside Chicago Station, 1887IIThe CombineInsomniasPrudentius, Seneca, Boethius, etc.MemoryThe InsistentTime's TrainMatriarchsTwo Views1950FieldsParksIIIGramercy ParkMaroonedStrayLincoln's TunnelAddio del passatoEndemicLate WalksAn Early Guide to Trapping