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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 levels—on 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. Husbandry—to create a dwelling place and to care for it—these are the ancient acts.

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I spent the afternoon breaking
ground. The tiller bucked and groaned
at the job, but with each pass I saw
a perfect blankness, like I''d been loaned
a second life in which to grow
a third. The sun sat on its porch
and smiled. I wonder

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      Publisher: The American Poetry Review
      Publication Date: 12/8/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780983300809, 978-0983300809
      ISBN10: 0983300801

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 levels—on 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. Husbandry—to create a dwelling place and to care for it—these are the ancient acts.

      Soil Surface Management

      I spent the afternoon breaking
      ground. The tiller bucked and groaned
      at the job, but with each pass I saw
      a perfect blankness, like I''d been loaned
      a second life in which to grow
      a third. The sun sat on its porch
      and smiled. I wonder

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