{"product_id":"long-rules-an-essay-in-verse-9781496227980","title":"Long Rules: An Essay in Verse","description":"A book-length poem in six sections, \u003ci\u003eLong Rules\u003c\/i\u003e 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 serving? Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, this essay in verse contemplates the meaning of solitude and its contemporary ramifications in a time of uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Perry \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eNine Acres\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Honickman First Book Prize. He teaches at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he edits the \u003ci\u003eHampden-Sydney Poetry Review.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50483077415186,"sku":"9781496227980","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b9de58d-17c3-4df9-bdd9-e8732a1cd615.jpg?v=1730356674","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/long-rules-an-essay-in-verse-9781496227980","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}