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  • The Common Man

    Poems

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Railsplitter

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Snakedoctor

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • As We Were Saying

    Sewanee Writers on Writing

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Bucolics

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Gone And The Going Away

    de 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,” ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • One Man's Dark

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry

    Poems, Poets, Process

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Bib Ballads

    de Ring W. Lardner ...
    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, ... Leer más

    $6.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • And Still I Rise

    A Book of Poems

    de 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... ... Leer más

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  • Christy

    de Catherine Marshall ...
    That Cutter Gap is right rough country. Watch yourself out there. . .The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions.But as Christy struggles to find acceptance ... Leer más

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  • I Am One of You Forever

    A Novel

    de Fred Chappell ...
    Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family -- father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives -- who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant ... Leer más

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