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Books by Maurice Manning
  | | The Gone and the Going Away(1st Edition) by Maurice Manning Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-93995-7, ISBN: 0-547-93995-7 "Welcome to “Fog Town Holler,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning’s glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories — not unlike E. A. Robinson’s Tilbury Town or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County — Manning celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of his beloved hill people.In Fog Town Holler men have “funny names,” like Tiny Too and Eula Loom. A fox is k ..." |
 | | The Common Man(1st Edition) by Maurice Manning Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-24961-2, ISBN: 0-547-24961-6 " The Common Man, Maurice Manning’s fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers who were his neighbors, friends, and family. Playing off the book’s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he ..." |
 | | Railsplitter by Maurice Manning Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-571-4, ISBN: 1-55659-571-9 "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, ..." |
 | | The Common Man by Mr Maurice Manning Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN-13: 978-0-544-30339-3, ISBN: 0-544-30339-3 " The Common Man, Maurice Manning’s fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers who were his neighbors, friends, and family. Playing off the book’s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he ..." |
 | | Bucolics(1st Edition) by Mr Maurice Manning Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2008 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603475-3, ISBN: 0-15-603475-1 "Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed 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 black by the rain the silver raindrop hanging from the black branch Boss I like that black branch I like that shiny raindrop Boss tell me if I’m wrong but ..." |
 | | Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions(1st Edition) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Mr. Maurice Manning, W. S. Merwin Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08998-1, ISBN: 0-300-08998-8 "This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man-child in the rural South. Presenting a cast of allegorical, yet very real, characters, the poems have "authority, daring, and a language of colour and sure movement", says series judge W.S. Merwin. Maurice Manning is a native of Danville, Kentuck ..." |
 | | A Companion for Owls Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c. by Maurice Manning Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101049-3, ISBN: 0-15-101049-8 "This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in ..." |
 | | James Dillon(Updated) A Biography by Maurice Manning Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 2000 by Wolfhound Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-86327-823-5, ISBN: 0-86327-823-X "James Dillon A Biography" |
 | | The Kilderry Files Format Paperback by Maurice Manning Paperback, 439 Pages, Published 2018 by Columba Press, Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-78218-337-2, ISBN: 1-78218-337-X "This fast-paced thriller with a rich cast of characters brings us to the heart of Wartime Ireland and into the inner reaches of Catholic politics, a time filled with greed, betrayal, and murder." |
 | | The National University of Ireland, 1908-2008 Centenary Essays (Hardback) by Tom Dunne, John Coolahan, Maurice Manning, Gearoid O. Tuathaigh, Gearóid Ó. Tuathaigh Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by University College Dublin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-904558-84-2, ISBN: 1-904558-84-4 "The National University of Ireland has played a key role in Irish life since its foundation in 1908. This beautifully illustrated book celebrates its centenary by looking at its origins in the Royal University, and further back in the Queen's Colleges, the Catholic University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. A distinguished group of conributors examines formative influences, especially the role of the Irish language movement and the ..." |
 | | The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry(Updated) Poems, Poets, Process by Professor Eleanor Wilner, Maurice Manning Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05203-5, ISBN: 0-472-05203-9 "The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneou ..." |
 | | The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry(Updated) Poems, Poets, Process by Professor Eleanor Wilner, Maurice Manning Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07203-3, ISBN: 0-472-07203-X "The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneou ..." |
 | | Dissecting Irish Politics(1st Edition) Essays in Honour of Brian Farrell by Tom Garvin, Maurice Manning, Richard Sinnott, Richard Sinnot Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Univ College Dublin Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-904558-12-5, ISBN: 1-904558-12-7 "Essays by leading academic, political and media figures in honour of Brian Farrell, the well-known political interviewer and former member of the Department of Politics, in celebration of his 75th birthday in 2004. The essays cover aspects of history of Irish democracy, the role of government institutions and their relations with Europe, government finance, the party system, political campaigning for elections and referendums, the lobby ..." |
 | | The Blueshirts(1st Edition) by Maurice Manning Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 1971 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-1787-1, ISBN: 0-8020-1787-8 |
 | | Irish Political Parties by Maurice Manning Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-0537-3, ISBN: 0-7171-0537-7 |
 | | One Man's Dark by Maurice Manning 110 Pages, Published 2017 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-160-1, ISBN: 1-61932-160-2 ""Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." —New York Times Book Review "Manning's genius—his truly staggering genius—is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this ..." |
 | | Seeking Its Own Level Motif Volume 4 by Margaret Atwood, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Amy Hempel, Maurice Manning, Jamie Quatro, Richard Hague, Roxane Gay, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jill Mccorkle, Denton Loving Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2014 by Motes ISBN-13: 978-1-934894-55-2, ISBN: 1-934894-55-9 "~ The fourth in the MOTIF literary anthology series takes WATER as its theme. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Maurice Manning, Amy Hempel, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jill McCorkle, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jamie Quatro, Roxanne Gay, Richard Hague and Jesse Graves. SEEKING ITS OWN LEVEL also marks the arrival of a capable new editor for the series, Denton Loving. In this collection, writers of prose and poetry explore water in many of it ..." |
 | | The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry Poems, Poets, Process by Eleanor Wilner, Maurice Manning 226 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02967-9, ISBN: 0-472-02967-3 "Eleanor. Wilner. and. Maurice. Manning. Introduction. That we see poets as“rag- pickers” points to our place in time, to the way we con- temporary poets forage wherever something of value and use might be found as material or form—in the past, in the woods, in the world's literature and art, in pop culture, in public events , in chance encounters, in the landfills ofhistory, in “the rag and bone shop of the heart”—a constant, inventi ..." |
 | | The Gone and the Going Away by Maurice Manning 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-93998-8, ISBN: 0-547-93998-1 "I think few will disagree this is memorable music, entertaining, rich, often spooky-wise." — Dave Smith, author of Little Boats, Unsalvaged Welcome to “Fog Town Holler,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning’s glorious rendering ..." |
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