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Long Rules: An Essay in Verse

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by Nathaniel Perry
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nathaniel PerrySeries:Backwaters Prize in PoetryPublish date:2021-11-01Pages:76
Language:EnglishPublisher:Backwaters PressISBN-13:9781496227980ISBN-10:1496227980UPC:9781496227980Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:Family, Inspirational & ReligiousSize:8.90 x 8.00 x 0.10 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCGA99EJ1W
A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape. Its lines unspool in a loose and echoing blank verse that investigates monastic rules, sunlight, Saint Basil, turnips, Thomas Merton, saddle-backed caterpillars, John Prine, fatherhood, and everything in between. Looking inside and outside the self, Perry asks, what, or whom, are we serving? Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, this essay in verse contemplates the meaning of solitude and its contemporary ramifications in a time of uncertainty.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Backwaters PressISBN-13:9781496227980ISBN-10:1496227980UPC:9781496227980Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:Family, Inspirational & ReligiousSize:8.90 x 8.00 x 0.10 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCGA99EJ1W
Nathaniel Perry is the author of Nine Acres, winner of the American Poetry Review's Honickman First Book Prize. He teaches at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he edits the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

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