Not a Soul but Us, Paperback by Smith, Richard, ISBN 0872333604, ISBN-13 9780872333604, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

"This May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize winning collection brings us to mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, where the plague pandemic wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind is a twelve-year-old shepherd boy, who with the help of his dog survives near-starvation and a brutal winter and keeps his flock alive. In the months and years that follow, he struggles to reconnect with the life around him. He tells his story in a sequence of eighty-four sonnets"--