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Pritts, Nate

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Ghost Road Pr

"The only person more dangerous than a dark-hearted man is a dark-hearted man on a sunny day." - Melissa Broder "These poems go one word, one greeting, one feeling to the next. They were written particularly for all of us. They call us to action — to poems of our own and more importantly to HUMAN BEING yesterday, tomorrow, and right now — however difficult it may be, whatever the cost, with joy at the prospect of making a connection." - Matt Hart from Publishers Weekly:"In his fifth collection, Pritts strives for a poetry of urgency—”I know there’s something/ I want desperately/ to say/ so I’m saying it”— his poems hint at what’s at stake when Pritts assembles them into the erratic and formless lines that propel the collection, recalling the rapid-fire lines of Ted Berrigan. In these moments, the poems, having sloughed off their linguistic winks and nods, arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity."

Sweet Nothing

Lowbrow Press LLC

Poetry. Quiet, introspective, and darkly comedic, Nate Pritts' DECOHERENCE gathers strength like a giant wave. Pritts' syntax declares an argument for his style that calls up Frank O'Hara in its blend of playfulness with the slow machinations of the speaker's psyche. At some moments elegant, lyrical, and seamless; at others limping and broken, DECOHERENCE nevertheless swims along purposefully across leaps and omissions, navigating both tension and ease in a series of emotional risks. "Reading Nate Pritts' new collection DECOHERENCE, I am reminded of the phrase 'do you see what I am saying?' Although the images in the poems vary, light is one element that runs throughout: 'Everything, it seems, is just waves of light' and 'I know that the only gift we can give to someone else / is context for all this light' and 'In morning light we are finally / cleansed of happening.' In fact, the final word is, literally, light. Enter these stanzas with Nate and see what he's saying. Be illuminated by DECOHERENCE."—Kimiko Hahn

Decoherence

42 Miles Press

The Wonderfull Yeare by Nate Pritts ISBN: 978-0-9841928-2-3 Paperback, 67 pages Mary Biddinger, author of Prairie Fever and Saint Monica, says: If the twenty-first century falls victim to a sudden plague, then The Wonderfull Yeare will be its sole antidote. In his collection of pastorals and anti-pastorals, sonnets and anti-sonnets, Pritts proves that the annus mirabilis need not contain monumental breakthroughs like those of Newton and Einstein to justify its wonders. Then isn't to say that these poems lack gravity or electricty, because the opposite is true. With revelations both calamitous and quotidian, Pritts makes us reconsider the entire notion of the calendar, as "Leaves unfold & collect sunlight.//It is the second before everything."

The Wonderfull Yeare (a Shepherd's Calendar)

Cooper Dillon Books

But the narrative of a person’s history is never quite so tidy as we might like. It’s impossible to trace things cleanly back to a single bolt of lightning that changed the course of our own human drama once we admit all the forces and decisions coalescing around us, “knowing how way leads on to way,” as Frost reminds us. Maybe that’s why I think it’s so important to reflect on our own beginnings as writers, to remember as much as we can of our origin stories, recognize and distill those residual energies so that we can keep learning from them.   In Origin Stories, originally published in the literary journal Passages North, Nate Pritts writes about his own beginnings as a poet and writer, his steps and missteps. In the process, he discovers how poetry can help us all find "a sensitivity to, and appreciation for, [our] own lives: the surroundings and the emotions, the locations and the associations."  Nate Pritts is the author of seven books of poetry - most recently Post Human (2016) which Publishers Weekly says "leads readers through a poetic dystopia that reveals the fragility of the human relationship with technology. Weaving his poems together as a meditative critique of technology and its numbing effect on the everyday, Pritts asks readers to imagine other possibilities amid 'this daily flood/ of ephemera, this electronic life.'" He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Origin Stories

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Poetry. "Nate Pritts's BIG BRIGHT SUN probably feels so thoroughly lived because reading it feels so like living in it. Robert Creeley wrote that for him in poems 'the world came true.' In these poems the world comes true. And how! All this sky glued to the trees and the world surface by the resin of sun-soaked American speech! You can feel this book poised listening to itself and all the light, sound, thought and feeling passing through it. Passing through on its way towards all its directly addressed others, us readers included. "Let's be everlasting today," this book, at one point early on, proposes. Let's"—Anthony McCann.

Big Bright Sun

BlazeVOX Books

Poetry. "As its exuberant title suggests, SENSATIONAL SPECTACULAR is a book of double energies, hurling out voluble, self-sparking poems on one side while clocking the reader upside the head with the essential loneliness of the lyric (and the universe) on the other"--Joyelle McSweeney.

Sensational Spectacular

History & Criticism

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