{"product_id":"unarmed-and-dangerous-wyatt-prunty-9780801873768","title":"Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWyatt 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\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) and called \"one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation\" (\u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant overview of his career until now, \u003ci\u003eUnarmed and DANGEROUS: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e features selections from Wyatt Prunty's five previous books--\u003ci\u003eThe Times Between\u003c\/i\u003e (1982); \u003ci\u003eWhat Women Know, What Men Believe\u003c\/i\u003e (1986); \u003ci\u003eBalance as Belief\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); \u003ci\u003eRun of the House\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); and \u003ci\u003eSince the Noon Mail Stopped\u003c\/i\u003e (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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Commercial Appeal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wyatt Prunty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801873762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801873768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 6.05w x 0.48d","brand":"Wyatt Prunty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130132721919,"sku":"9780801873768","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2dbb0a6-e0d3-4f2d-b715-d0d902ce5a0c.jpg?v=1687467743","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unarmed-and-dangerous-wyatt-prunty-9780801873768","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}