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A Companion for Owls
Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c.
Maurice Manning
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Synopsis |
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This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry.
Praised for his originality, Maurice Manning is an exciting new voice in American poetry.
The darkest place I've ever been
did not require a name. It seemed
to be a gathering place for the lint
of the world. The bottom of a hollow
beneath two ridges, sunk like a stone.
The water was surely old, the dregs
of some ancient sea, but purified
by time, like a man made better by
his years, his old hurts absorbed into
his soul, his losses like a spring
in his breast.
-from "Born Again"
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Biography |
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Maurice Manning's poems have appeared in the Southern Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New Yorker, and his first collection of poems was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award. He teaches English at Indiana University.
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Poetry- American
Poetry- General
History- United States/Revolutionary Period (1775
History- United States/General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- Poetry
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First Serial/Second Serial/Audio/Reprint/Performance/UK/Translation: Harcourt
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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