Maurice Manning

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this collection seem to cascade from one page to another.Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.that bare branch that branch made blackby the rain the silver raindrophanging from the black branchBoss I like that black branchI like that shiny raindrop Bosstell me if I'm wrong but it makesme think you're looking rightat me now isn't that a lark for meto think you look that wayupside down like a tree frogBoss I'm not surprised at allI wouldn't doubt it fora minute you're always upto something I'll say one thingyou're all right all right you areeven when you're hanging Boss

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Bucolics

A fourth collection by the award-winning author of Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions is a series of ballad-like narratives that celebrates the Kentucky mountain country of his youth and the hidden complexities of everyday people and experiences.

The Common Man

Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Collects poem's about the author's home among the hill people of Kentucky, reflecting upon his childhood perceptions of the region and his family members.

The Gone and the Going Away

Moore McDowell

The History of the ESB

Electricity Supply in Ireland

Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln’s persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President’s mind while leading a divided nation. Equal parts prophetic and rich in both rural folklore and literary allusions—from Shakespeare, to Whitman, to Poe, to the comedic—Railsplitter transcends the darkness of Lincoln’s time, to imagine a new lore entirely—one comprised of buzzard feather quills, horse treats in a top hat, and finally, a fateful bullet. Lincoln, who was born nearby to Maurice Manning’s childhood home in Kentucky, is alive again, in new form.

Railsplitter

A collection of narrative poems by an award-winning writer is written in the voice of Daniel Boone and follows themes that evince the beauty and struggle of nascent America, tracing the frontiersman's witness to the nation's birth, observations of the natural world, loss of family, and friendship with a slave.

Maurice Manning

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