
The Lover's Guide to Trapping
Wyatt Prunty(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 27. July 2009
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-0-8018-9279-0 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 2009More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-9279-0 (9780801892790)
DOI
10.56021/9780801892790
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Person
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.
Content
I
Mole
Big Dog, Little Dog
House Wren
Spencerian Hand
Last Century
Stazione Centrale
Incident in the Sublime
The Returning Dead
Circus
Albumen Silver Print from Glass Negative outside Chicago Station, 1887
II
The Combine
Insomnias
Prudentius, Seneca, Boethius, etc.
Memory
The Insistent
Time's Train
Matriarchs
Two Views
1950
Fields
Parks
III
Gramercy Park
Marooned
Stray
Lincoln's Tunnel
Addio del passato
Endemic
Late Walks
An Early Guide to Trapping
Mole
Big Dog, Little Dog
House Wren
Spencerian Hand
Last Century
Stazione Centrale
Incident in the Sublime
The Returning Dead
Circus
Albumen Silver Print from Glass Negative outside Chicago Station, 1887
II
The Combine
Insomnias
Prudentius, Seneca, Boethius, etc.
Memory
The Insistent
Time's Train
Matriarchs
Two Views
1950
Fields
Parks
III
Gramercy Park
Marooned
Stray
Lincoln's Tunnel
Addio del passato
Endemic
Late Walks
An Early Guide to Trapping