Long Rules by Nathaniel Perry PAPERBACK 9781496227980

Long Rules\nby Nathaniel Perry\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Nathaniel Perry\nTitle: Long Rules\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry by individual poets\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781496227980\nISBN-10: 1496227980\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA 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 se.