The common man / Maurice Manning.
2010
PS3613.A5654 C65 2010
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Title
The common man / Maurice Manning.
Author
ISBN
9780547249612
0547249616
0547249616
Imprint
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Language
English
Description
viii, 96 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3613.A5654 C65 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)427644921
Summary
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.
Formatted Contents Note
Moonshine
The mute
A bestiary
A wavering spindle of Forsythia
The pupil
A prayer to God my God in a time of desolation
Three truths, one story
Hey, sidewinder
A blasphemy
The old clodhopper's aubade
Ars poetica shaggy and brown
Emptying a rain gauge
Sowing butter beans with a stick
Dead tree, two crows, morning fog
Thunderbolt, my foot
The burthen of the mystery indeed
A panegyric against the consolation of grief
A wringer washer on the porch
For the last time, no, I'm not the Rabbit Man
That durned ole via negativa
The Lord he thought he'd make a man
For the prodigal, the morning is a trespass against the night
Old negro spiritual
O stationers!
A lexicon for people who don't talk too much
Old-time preachin' on a scripture taken from a tree
Pappy's little pistol
Sad and alone
A local yokel's system of the spheres
The doctrine of an ax
The man who lived with joy and pain: his own account
Song of the potato digger
A man with a rooster in his dream
The beet's theology
Oh, she's warm!
The dream of a mountain woman big enough for me
Where sadness comes from
Giddyup, ye banties!
The common man.
The mute
A bestiary
A wavering spindle of Forsythia
The pupil
A prayer to God my God in a time of desolation
Three truths, one story
Hey, sidewinder
A blasphemy
The old clodhopper's aubade
Ars poetica shaggy and brown
Emptying a rain gauge
Sowing butter beans with a stick
Dead tree, two crows, morning fog
Thunderbolt, my foot
The burthen of the mystery indeed
A panegyric against the consolation of grief
A wringer washer on the porch
For the last time, no, I'm not the Rabbit Man
That durned ole via negativa
The Lord he thought he'd make a man
For the prodigal, the morning is a trespass against the night
Old negro spiritual
O stationers!
A lexicon for people who don't talk too much
Old-time preachin' on a scripture taken from a tree
Pappy's little pistol
Sad and alone
A local yokel's system of the spheres
The doctrine of an ax
The man who lived with joy and pain: his own account
Song of the potato digger
A man with a rooster in his dream
The beet's theology
Oh, she's warm!
The dream of a mountain woman big enough for me
Where sadness comes from
Giddyup, ye banties!
The common man.
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