Full Description
Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is that she be let in. And there are others who populate the pages of this book, one stray cat, one ghost, but many who are human-soldiers, prisoners, wide-eyed children, matriarchs, Verdi in despair over having cast a plump Violetta who cannot play her role as a consumptive. All of those described here are vulnerable, some of them searingly so, and all are acutely aware of just how angular their worlds can be, whether accompanied by terror or hilarity.
Contents
I
Mole
Big Dog, Little Dog
House Wren
Spencerian Hand
Last Century
Stazione Centrale
Incident in the Sublime
The Returning Dead
Circus
Albumen Silver Print from Glass Negative outside Chicago Station, 1887
II
The Combine
Insomnias
Prudentius, Seneca, Boethius, etc.
Memory
The Insistent
Time's Train
Matriarchs
Two Views
1950
Fields
Parks
III
Gramercy Park
Marooned
Stray
Lincoln's Tunnel
Addio del passato
Endemic
Late Walks
An Early Guide to Trapping
