Majella: Poems from a Mountain Home by Sean Prentiss
From the book: “In September 2019, the European Wilderness Society hosted WildArts, a retreat for seven artists from Europe and America [including writer Sean Prentiss] for one week in the small town of Caramanico Terme, Italy. … Guides from The European Wilderness Society and Majella Nation Park take the artists through central Italy’s Apennine Mountains, teaching them the region’s geology, geography, politics, religion, history, flora, and fauna.”
Enjoy this sneak peek of Prentiss’ poetry collection:
The Littlest
Walking beneath grotto rocks
an earthen orange, beside
singing river, the American
painter points into the smallest
bloom of thistle, nearly invisible
against a menagerie of Majella
greens. For the painter, it is not
always gazing upon grandeur
but at the littlest the earth offers.
The painter whispers a quiet wind:
That blue.
BIO:
Sean Prentiss is the award winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Finding Abbey was a finalist for the Vermont and Colorado Book Awards.
He is also the author of Crosscut: Poems, a memoir-in-poems about his time as a trail builder in the Pacific Northwest.
Sean is the co-editor of two anthologies on the craft of creative nonfiction. They are The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction and The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre.
He is the co-author of two textbooks. They are Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology.
He is the series co-editor for Bloomsbury’s Writers’ Guide and Anthology textbook series, which has many books in print.
Sean serves as Backcountry Magazine’s poet laureate.
You can find out more at https://www.seanprentiss.com.
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