Crosscut: Poems

by Sean Prentiss

Book Overview

Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. It is a world where the sounds of trail tools--Pulaskis, McLeods, and hazel hoes--filter into dreams and set the rhythm of each day. In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backdropped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826361315
• ISBN13: 9780826361318
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"