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  • Bucolics

    by Maurice Manning ...
    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 blackby the rain the silver raindrophanging from the black branchBoss I like that black branchI like that shiny ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Snakedoctor

    by Maurice Manning ...
    Well-known Kentucky writer comparable to poets like Wendell Berry, Silas House, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, and Bobbie Ann MasonW.S. Merwin selected him for the Yale Younger Poets Award for his first book, Book of VisionsPulitzer Prize-Finalist for The Common Man, judges’ comment: “A rich, often poignant collection of poems rooted in a rural Kentucky experiencing change in its culture and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • One Man's Dark

    by Maurice Manning ...
    "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 fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly, idiosyncratically his own." -Smartish Pace"He's saved himself with the most basic of things ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Common Man

    Poems

    by Maurice Manning ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gone And The Going Away

    by Maurice Manning ...
    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,” ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Railsplitter

    by Maurice Manning ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry

    Poems, Poets, Process

    Edited by Eleanor Wilner, Maurice Manning ...
    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, ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The World's Great Sermons

    Volume V—Guthrie to Mozley

    by Kleiser Grenville, Thomas Guthrie, Fredrick Denison Maurice, James Martineau, Henry Edward Manning, Edwards Amasa Park, Matthew Simpson, Theodore Parker, Norman Macleod, James Bowling Mozley ...
    Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mendl Mann The Fall of Berlin

    by Mendl Mann ...
    Translated by Maurice Wolfthal ...
    Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. Translated into English from the original Yiddish by Maurice Wolfthal, the narrative follows Menakhem as he fights on the front line in Stalin’s Red Army against Hitler ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As We Were Saying

    Sewanee Writers on Writing

    by Adrianne Harun, Andrew Hudgins, Naomi Iizuka, Margot Livesey, William Logan, Maurice Manning, Charles Martin, Jill McCorkle, Christine Schutt, Sidney Wade, Allen Wier, Dan O'Brien ...
    Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • And Still I Rise

    A Book of Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl o... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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