What Women Know, What Men Believe (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Softcover

Prunty, Wyatt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801833280 ISBN 13: 9780801833281

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Poems deal with the past, parenthood, mortality, nature, loneliness, violence, beauty, neighbors, and sleep

About this title

About the Author

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.

Review

Black Water
The Depression, The War, And Gypsy Rose Lee
The Distance Into Place
The Field Trip
Fireflies
Florence
From Inside
Geography
Getting My Son To Sleep
The Gnostic At The Zoo
Homesickness
Husband
Insomnia
Living Alone
Miss America
The Mole
Mother And Spring
Orpheus
Our Neighbor
The Party
The Player Piano
A Retirement Catalogue
Rooms Without Walls
Saying It Back
Sisters
Sleep
To Ed, With Alzheimer's
To My Father
Two Kinds Of Cause
The Vireo
Waiting For Our Second Child
Wallace Stevens Remembers Halloween
What Doesn't Go Away
When Sorry's Not Enough
A Winter's Tale
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0801833280
• ISBN 13: 9780801833281
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80