The Lover's Guide to Trapping: Poems (Signed First Edition)

Wyatt Prunty

ISBN 10: 0801892791 / ISBN 13: 9780801892790

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

About this Item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2009). First edition. Second printing. Hardbound. New/New. SIGNED by author on title page. A pristine unread copy, with mylar dust jacket protector, opened only for author to sign. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lover's Guide to Trapping: Poems (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801892791
• ISBN 13: 9780801892790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.