Description
Poetry. Pulitzer finalist Maurice Manning is at the height of his powers as he searches through layers of dreams, imagination, and memory to reconnect with oneself and one's place in the cosmos. Drawing deep from his Kentucky roots, Manning's poems are peopled with ordinary and extraordinary rural characters, as he gives voice to a region well-loved and full of tradition.
"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—a place, its people, and one of its songs."—Orion
Author Bio
Maurice Manning, the author of four collections of poetry, was awarded the 2009 Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His first book, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His fouth book, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Manning is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches at Transylvania University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Manning has also been a regular faculty member of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in Kentucky with his family.
Author City: BETHLEHEM, KY USA