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'Fallen from the Symboled World'
Precedents for the New Formalism
Av Wyatt Prunty
Inbunden, 1990
902 kr
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Prunty's book is a reading of contemporary American poets using the phenomenological approaches of Heidegger and Husserl. His argument, begun with the reading of the work of Robert Lowell, is that contemporary poets, unlike their modernist predecessors, have adopted a sceptical stance and expressed …
"e;Fallen from the Symboled World"e;
Precedents for the New Formalism
Av Wyatt Prunty
E-bok, 1990
569 kr
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This study evaluates figure and form in contemporary poetry, especially the powers of simile and simile-like structures. Examining the works of Nemerov, Wilbur, Bowers, Hecht, Justice, Cunningham, Bishop, Van Duyn, Hollander, Pack, Kennedy, Ammons, Creeley, and Wright, Prunty argues that doubts …
Times Between
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1982
400 kr
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"In Wyatt Prunty's poetry, familiar things and places, old things and new things, lost things, lost faces are recovered and illumined by a language both skewed and precise".--Walker Percy. (Poetry)
What Women Know, What Men Believe
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1986
226 kr
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Poems deal with the past, parenthood, mortality, nature, loneliness, violence, beauty, neighbors, and sleep
Balance As Belief
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1989
408 kr
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In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson …
Run of the House
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 1993
336 kr
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In his latest book of poems, Wyatt Pruncy finds beauty, violence, mystery, and humour in a variety of public and private worlds. Wyatt Prunty's previous collections of poems, "The Times Between, What Women Know, What Men Believe", and "Balance as Belief" are also available from Johns Hopkins.
Unarmed and Dangerous
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 2003
467 kr
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Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth" (Howard Nemerov), "both artful and truthful" (Donald Justice), "a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion" (Anthony Hecht), and "illuminated by a language both skewed and precise" (Walker …
Lover’s Guide to Trapping
Av Wyatt Prunty
Inbunden, 2009
360 kr
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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 …
Sewanee Writers on Writing
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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For two weeks every year, literary figures from throughout the country gather in rural Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten conferences, the ""craft"" lectures collected …
As We Were Saying
Sewanee Writers on Writing
Av Wyatt, Prunty, Wyatt Prunty m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
449 kr
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Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last …
Candy
Poems
Av Dan Albergotti, Wyatt Prunty m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
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Dan Albergotti's Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient soundtrack of history and the seemingly apocalyptic present. Silence in the sense both of the void's …
Novice
Poems
Av Nida Sophasarun, Wyatt Prunty m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun's Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain, a mother's body imagined as a house, and the moon serving as both …
Driving the Beast
Poems
Av Christopher Bakken, Wyatt Prunty m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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Driving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken's poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in landscapes scarred by history and political turmoil. The book's back-and-forth mirroring invites …
Wonder Wheel
Poems
Av Chelsea Whitton, Wyatt Prunty m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
268 kr
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Chelsea Whitton's debut poetry collection, Wonder Wheel, dexterously whirls in sonic circles, ruminating on themes of spiritual bestowal and terrestrial bequest, millennial identity, adult friendship, feminine desire, and the mythmaking at stake in family history. Disoriented speakers who …
Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise
Av Wyatt Prunty
Häftad, 2015
261 kr
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In Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise, Wyatt Prunty ushers readers into a seesaw world, one that teeters between small fables of childish misgivings and adult assurances. Alternately shadowed and illuminated by nostalgia, this deft, witty volume brings together seventeen of Prunty's recent poems, seven …
