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Long Rules: An Essay in Verse
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Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
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ISBN10: 1496227980
ISBN13: 9781496227980
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: Nov 1 2021
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781496227980
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: Nov 1 2021
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.
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