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The Wonderfull Yeare (a Shepherd's Calendar)

A full-length collection of poetry by Nate Pritts.

http://www.natepritts.com

Nate Pritts’ The Wonderfull Yeare invents new forms for feeling, bringing to life a speaker who sees, in nature, suggestive (but possibly untranslatable, inimitable) directions for moving forward from sorrow. The shepherd’s calendar becomes “a branch that would reach” — balancing lyric beauty against blunt knowledge of loss and regret — while repetition and revision alert us to restrictions: we feel the “rigid world” the poet describes, hurt by hard boundaries that forbid return. To read these touching collage poems is to make the slow and transformative passage from a “constant red ache” to “blue night... // & then afterward.”

— Laura Mullen, author of WHEN I WAS DEAD and SUBJECT

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 67
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780984192823
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2009