Wild Dog Press
Majella: Poems from a Mountain Home by Sean Prentiss
About Majella
Majella: Poems from a Mountain Home illuminates the Abruzzo spine of Italy through poetry as Sean Prentiss explores Majella Wilderness. Majella takes readers into Prentiss’s travels in Italy, the craggy Apennine Mountains, and the Majella Wilderness.
Praise for Majella
"Majella Poems evokes the ineffable—a visceral realization that we are part of, rather than apart from, the processes and places of the planet that sustain us. Through the compelling poetic story of a gathering of artists, writers, scientists, and wilderness activists in Italy’s Abruzzo Mountains in 2019, Prentiss inspires readers to find their diverse communities with which to ‘become / one / river / running.’ Just as the poet finds ‘salvation / closest to / the earth,’ so the reader will find solace in this tribute to the unifying power of the wild world."
John Hausdoerffer
Co-Editor & Co-Author of An Elemental Life and What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
Cover Art by Richard Hingston
Majella Interior Artwork by Andrii Shadrin
About the Author
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, Utah Book Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the author of Crosscut: Poems. He is also the co-writer of Environmental and Nature Writing. He used to be a trail crew leader and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest. He now is associate professor at Norwich University. He has hiked the Colorado Trail and Long Trail. He and his family live on a small lake in northern Vermont not far from Bald Mountain Meadow.
