Wyatt Prunty
Personal Information
Description
Eugene Wyatte Prunty was born in Humbolt, Tennessee and raised in Athens, Georgia. As a child, he and his two sisters spent their summers on his grandparents' farm in Tennessee. His father was Merle Charles Prunty, a geography professor at the University of Georgia. In 1969, Prunty received a B.A. degree from the University of the South. After graduating, he served with the U.S. Navy for three years. He then resumed his education and in 1973 he received a M.A. degree, followed by a Ph.D. degree from Louisiana State in 1979. He has since published several volumes of poetry.
Books
The lover's guide to trapping
"Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is that she be let in"--
The run of the house
The work of Wyatt Prunty has been acclaimed by critics and poets alike. In this latest book of poetry, Prunty finds beauty and violence, mystery and humor, in a variety of private and public worlds.