About Wyatt Prunty

Wyatt Prunty is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems (Johns Hopkins, 2000), and the critical study “Fallen from the Symboled World”: Precedents for the New Formalism (Oxford, 1990). He is director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

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Born during war, I slept by rivers,
Obion, Forked Deer, and Mississippi.
Before the words for those subtending powers

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