The Lover's Guide to Trapping Contributor(s): Prunty, Wyatt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801892791 ISBN-13: 9780801892790 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: April 2009 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2008035749 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.6" W x 9.1" L (0.45 lbs) 72 pages |
Features: Dust Cover, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2009 pg. 17 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Prunty, Wyatt: - 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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