Patrick Pritchett
b. 1957

Patrick Pritchett was born in South Bend, Indiana. He earned his PhD at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, and Westfield State. His scholarly work focuses on modernist and postmodernist American poets. His poems have been anthologized in The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015 and Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. His work has also appeared in Hambone, New American Writing, Interim, Colorado Review, New Review of Literature, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Song X: New and Selected Poems

2014
Paperback
174 p.

"For Pritchett, the word is the sign of a divine spark that must be continually fueled by more thought. Not cinematic: secret. The poems unveil an orange glow behind loneliness, a color beyond erasure.” - Fanny Howe

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