Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize Set in rural England during and after the bubonic plague pandemic of 1348-1349, this verse novel drives to the heart of what we humans are capable of when boiled down to our very core in the struggle to survive - and how, in more ways than one, it’s not our intelligence or our resiliency, but love and the non-human animals that save us.
In mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, the plague wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind, a twelve-year-old shepherd boy survives a brutal winter and keeps his flock alive. In the years that follow, he struggles to reconnect with life. He tells his story in a sequence of eighty-four sonnets.
Publisher
Bauhan (William L.),U.S.
Publication Date
Jun 2022
ISBN
9780872333604
Pages
80 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Paperback
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