Maurice Manning’s One Man’s Dark Poetry Collection

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Copper Canyon Press (hardcover, 2016)

Publisher Marketing: 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

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