Since the Noon Mail Stopped: Poems (Signed First Edition)

Wyatt Prunty

ISBN 10: 0801856469 / ISBN 13: 9780801856464

Edité par The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997

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First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy, in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very slight bowing to boards of an otherwise beautiful copy. This copy has been SIGNED by Prunty on the title page (as pictured). Poetry-Rear.

N° de réf. du vendeur FLAHIVE-2719

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Since the Noon Mail Stopped: Poems (Signed First Edition)
• Éditeur: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801856469
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801856464
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry
  • Signed Poetry

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Synopsis

Wyatt Prunty has been called "one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation" (William Bedford Clark, 'Southern Review'). In this new collection, his wry humor and meditative spirit attach themselves to such unlikely objects as, for example, the "Zamboni" that polishes a skating rink. (He finds a metaphor in how it "restores a hardened glaze / as cold and clear as any thought we keep.") In "Coach," he portrays a dog's inner life, from puppyhood to death, in four brief stanzas: "All trucks were from Hell and deserved my bite, / all children sheep and not to leave the yard..." "Grown Men at Touch" finds delicious irony in the shadow of a barn, declared the boundary of a football match, that gradually moves the goal line beyond the players' reach: "By four, our shadow-field / Had gone long past the longest pass; / By five, no one could run its length..." What these poems share is that each is a different approach to the book's abiding preoccupation with our mortality. Praise for Wyatt Prunty: "Wyatt Prunty's poems astonishingly combine dramatic and meditative virtues. A triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion."--Anthony Hecht "In poetry this honest you can see the character of the writer pretty clearly. I see, too, a certain fine pride, the pride taken in working carefully to get things right. Here, then, is a poetry both artful and truthful, a pretty rare case."--Donald Justice

À propos de l?auteur

Wyatt Prunty is the author of 'Balance as Belief'; 'What Women Know, What Men Believe'; and 'The Times Between'; all published by Johns Hopkins. His other works include a critical study of contemporary poetry, '"Fallen from the Symboled World": Precedents for the New Formalism'.