Selected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, "Nine Acres" is the winner of the "American Poetry Review"/APR Honickman First Book Prize. Taking their titles from chapters of a 1930s small-scale farming handbook, the fifty-two poems in this cycle create a handbook for living and explore sustainability on many levelson the land, in the family, and in the spirit.
As Marie Howe writes in her introduction to the book, "Nathanial Perry has collected poems into this book as one plants a field, as an act of husbandry: each line a furrow where seeds flourish or fail. Husbandryto...
Selected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, "Nine Acres" is the winner of the "American Poetry Review"/APR Honickman First Book Priz...
