The Common Man: A Sincere Literary Poetry Collection―Contemporary American Narratives from Kentucky Mountains - Softcover

Manning, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0544303393 ISBN 13: 9780544303393

Verlag: Ecco, 2010

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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 creates a detailed, complex, and poignant portrait—by turns serious and hilarious, philosophical and speculative, but ultimately tragic—of a fast-disappearing aspect of American culture. The Common Man’s accessibility and its enthusiastic and sincere charms make it the perfect antidote to the glib ironies that characterize much contemporary American verse. It will also help to strengthen Manning’s reputation as one of his generation’s most important and original voices.

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MAURICE MANNING is the author of four previous books of poems. His last book, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0544303393
• ISBN 13: 9780544303393
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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