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Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems by Prunty, Wyatt
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- ISBN
- 0801873762
- Book Title
- Unarmed and Dangerous : New and Selected Poems
- Book Series
- Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Ser.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Poetry, Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801873762
ISBN-13
9780801873768
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Book Title
Unarmed and Dangerous : New and Selected Poems
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Book Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A distinct and distinctive voice... best looked at not amongst his peers but in the light of an earlier generation of elegant formalists, from Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, and James Merrill, to the less well-known Edgar Bowers and J. V. Cunningham."--N. S. Thompson, Times Literary Supplement, ""Frostian stoicism and precise observation of sad American scenes distinguish the poems of Wyatt Prunty, whose careful technique sets him above most of the New Formalist poets who share his tastes."", "There are vast expanses of ordinary fabric, bejeweled by moments of existential clarity... Prunty holds everyday experience up to the light in such a way that it seems anything but. He has an exquisite hold on life."--Melanie Rehak, New York Times Book Review, Frostian stoicism and precise observation of sad American scenes distinguish the poems of Wyatt Prunty, whose careful technique sets him above most of the New Formalist poets who share his tastes., "Frostian stoicism and precise observation of sad American scenes distinguish the poems of Wyatt Prunty, whose careful technique sets him above most of the New Formalist poets who share his tastes."-- Publishers Weekly, A distinct and distinctive voice... best looked at not amongst his peers but in the light of an earlier generation of elegant formalists, from Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, and James Merrill, to the less well-known Edgar Bowers and J. V. Cunningham., There are vast expanses of ordinary fabric, bejeweled by moments of existential clarity... Prunty holds everyday experience up to the light in such a way that it seems anything but. He has an exquisite hold on life.
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Synopsis
Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as 'quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth' (Howard Nemerov), 'both artful and truthful' (Donald Justice), 'a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion' (Anthony Hecht), and 'illuminated by a language both skewed and precise' (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty -- who is also the founder and director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference -- has been praised for 'his powerful imagination in the specifics of ordinary details, suggesting persuasively that the near at hand is as unexplored and full of wonder as the far ends of the universe' (Publishers Weekly) and called 'one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation' (Southern Review).An elegant overview of his career until now, Unarmed and DANGEROUS: New and Selected Poems features selections from Wyatt Prunty's five previous books -- The Times Between (1982); What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986); Balance as Belief (1989); Run of the House (1993); and Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997), all published by the Johns Hopkins University Press -- as well as new poems that demonstrate the poet's wide-ranging and sympathetic imagination. Prunty's new work includes moving evocations of childhood ('A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953'), richly detailed poems about ordinary people and situations ('The Downtown Bus'), and even a probing meditation on the fairy tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk' ('Annals of Jack'). Together, the poems gathered in this volume afford a clear portrait of a major American poet whose distinctive voice and vision have earned him the admiration and respect of such contemporaries as Richard Wilbur, X. J. Kennedy, and Mark Strand and marked him as 'a writer who has mastered his craft, [a] poet [who] can look at the life most of us take for granted and show us what is most real, most precious in it' (The Commercial Appeal)., Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth" (Howard Nemerov), "both artful and truthful" (Donald Justice), "a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion" (Anthony Hecht), and "illuminated by a language both skewed and precise" (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty--who is also the founder and director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference--has been praised for "his powerful imagination in the specifics of ordinary details, suggesting persuasively that the near at hand is as unexplored and full of wonder as the far ends of the universe" ( Publishers Weekly ) and called "one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation" ( Southern Review ). An elegant overview of his career until now, Unarmed and DANGEROUS: New and Selected Poems features selections from Wyatt Prunty's five previous books-- The Times Between (1982); What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986); Balance as Belief (1989); Run of the House (1993); and Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997), all published by the Johns Hopkins University Press--as well as new poems that demonstrate the poet's wide-ranging and sympathetic imagination. Prunty's new work includes moving evocations of childhood ("A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953"), richly detailed poems about ordinary people and situations ("The Downtown Bus"), and even a probing meditation on the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" ("Annals of Jack"). Together, the poems gathered in this volume afford a clear portrait of a major American poet whose distinctive voice and vision have earned him the admiration and respect of such contemporaries as Richard Wilbur, X. J. Kennedy, and Mark Strand and marked him as "a writer who has mastered his craft, a] poet who] can look at the life most of us take for granted and show us what is most real, most precious in it" ( The Commercial Appeal )., Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth" (Howard Nemerov), "both artful and truthful" (Donald Justice), "a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion" (Anthony Hecht), and "illuminated by a language both skewed and precise" (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty--who is also the founder and director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference--has been praised for "his powerful imagination in the specifics of ordinary details, suggesting persuasively that the near at hand is as unexplored and full of wonder as the far ends of the universe" ( Publishers Weekly ) and called "one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation" ( Southern Review ). An elegant overview of his career until now, Unarmed and DANGEROUS: New and Selected Poems features selections from Wyatt Prunty's five previous books-- The Times Between (1982); What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986); Balance as Belief (1989); Run of the House (1993); and Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997), all published by the Johns Hopkins University Press--as well as new poems that demonstrate the poet's wide-ranging and sympathetic imagination. Prunty's new work includes moving evocations of childhood ("A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953"), richly detailed poems about ordinary people and situations ("The Downtown Bus"), and even a probing meditation on the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" ("Annals of Jack"). Together, the poems gathered in this volume afford a clear portrait of a major American poet whose distinctive voice and vision have earned him the admiration and respect of such contemporaries as Richard Wilbur, X. J. Kennedy, and Mark Strand and marked him as "a writer who has mastered his craft, [a] poet [who] can look at the life most of us take for granted and show us what is most real, most precious in it" ( The Commercial Appeal )., Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as 'quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth' (Howard Nemerov), 'both artful and truthful' (Donald Justice), 'a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion' (Anthony Hecht), and 'illuminated by a language both skewed and precise' (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty -- who is also the founder ......
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