Nine Acres - (Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize) by Nathaniel Perry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of the 2011 American Poetry Review/APR Honickman First Book Prize.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Selected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, <i>Nine Acres</i> is the winner of the <i>American Poetry Review</i>/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 levels--on the land, in the family, and in the spirit.</p><p>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. Husbandry--to create a dwelling place and to care for it--these are the ancient acts.</p><p><b>Soil Surface Management</b></p><p><i>I spent the afternoon breaking<br>ground. The tiller bucked and groaned<br>at the job, but with each pass I saw<br>a perfect blankness, like I'd been loaned<br>a second life in which to grow<br>a third. The sun sat on its porch<br>and smiled. I wondered if the dirt<br>would be enough, a kind of torch<br>to set inside our lives to say, <br>we'll grow our food like this, our plans<br>will look like this --like soil squared<br>and measured into beds by a man<br>sweating through his shirt with effort.<br>In dirt is one life we can choose<br>to make. I spent the afternoon<br>breaking what I knew we'd use.</i></p><p><b>Nathaniel Perry</b> lives with his family in rural southside Virginia. He is the editor of the <i>Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review</i> and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Nathaniel Perry: Nathaniel Perry lives with his family in rural southside Virginia. He is the editor of the <i>Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review</i> and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College.<br>Marie Howe: Marie Howe was born in 1950 and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her debut volume, <i>The Good Thief, </i> was selected by Margaret Atwood as winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Since then, she has published two more collections, <i>What the Living Do</i> and <i>The Kingdom of the Ordinary</i>. <p/>
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