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Couldn´t Prove, Had to Promise
Wyatt Prunty
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Description for Couldn´t Prove, Had to Promise
Paperback. " Funny, raw, and colorfully musical, "Nod" plays what teeters, like a tuning fork. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
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 of which have been previously published in Poetry, the Hopkins Review, the Kenyon Review, and Blackbird. In "Crescent Theater, Schenectady, NY," a silent-movie accompanist reads his foreign newspaper after work as he listens, ever the outsider, "to his children using English / For everything they wish." In "Rules," a small girl, told she can't go to ... Read more
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 of which have been previously published in Poetry, the Hopkins Review, the Kenyon Review, and Blackbird. In "Crescent Theater, Schenectady, NY," a silent-movie accompanist reads his foreign newspaper after work as he listens, ever the outsider, "to his children using English / For everything they wish." In "Rules," a small girl, told she can't go to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417141
SKU
V9781421417141
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About Wyatt Prunty
Wyatt Prunty is a professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South and the founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is the author of nine collections of poems, including The Lover's Guide to Trapping, and two critical works.
Reviews for Couldn´t Prove, Had to Promise
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as the jacket says
'childish misgivings and adult assurances,' Wyatt Prunty brings a grace and dignity to the speaking voice, as well as ironical humour in the case of the adult assurances. Times Literary Supplement
as the jacket says
'childish misgivings and adult assurances,' Wyatt Prunty brings a grace and dignity to the speaking voice, as well as ironical humour in the case of the adult assurances. Times Literary Supplement