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July/Aug 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Rereading Ransom

By Wyatt Prunty

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom, Editor Ben Mazer. Un-Gyve Press, 2015. 396 pp. $75.00.

 

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Wyatt Prunty’s latest poetry collection is Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise. He lives in Sewanee, where he is the Ogden D. Carlton Professor in Sewanee’s English Department. He directs the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Tennessee Fellowship Series. He edits the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series.

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String River

By Wyatt Prunty

String river washes new life over rocks Out to a sea where never seen again. Its harmonies repeat so closely they are monotone In arguing they will never end with […]

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