Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 80 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300138180
,
0300089961
,
0300089988
,
0300129920
,
1281728888
,
9780300138184
,
9780300089967
,
9780300089981
,
9780300129922
,
9781281728883
Series Statement:
Yale series of younger poets v. 95
Content:
This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man-child in the rural South. Presenting a cast of allegorical, yet very real, characters, the poems have "authority, daring, and a language of colour and sure movement", says series judge W.S. Merwin. Maurice Manning is a native of Danville, Kentucky. He holds degrees from Earlham College, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Alabama, where he received his MFA in 1999. He has held a writing fellowship to The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently teaches English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. From Seven Chimeras The way Booth makes a love story: same as a regular story, except under one rock is a trapdoor that leads to a room full of belly buttons; each must be pushed, one is a landmine. The way Booth makes hope: thirty-seven acres, Black Damon, Red Dog. Construct a pillar of fire in the Great Field and let it become unquenchable. The way Booth ends the Jack-in-the-Box charade: shoot the weasel in the neck and toss it to the buzzards. The way Booth thinks of salvation: God holding a broken abacus, coloured beads falling away
Content:
""Contents""; ""Foreword by W.S. Merwin""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""ONE""; ""Bellwether""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Wave""; ""The Hobos""; ""Dreadful Chapter One""; ""Envoy""; ""Octagon""; ""Ace""; ""Prisoner of Conscience""; ""Leather-Stocking""; ""Dreadful Chapter Two""; ""Proof""; ""Shady Grove""; ""A Prayer Against Forgetting Boys""; ""Seventeen""; ""Progress Report""; ""Ontology""; ""Pontiac""; ""Dreadful Chapter Three""; ""Strait""; ""Quantum Cowboy""; ""Beck""; ""Analog""; ""Siding""; ""A Condensed History of Beauty""; ""TWO""; ""Pegasus""; ""Antimatter""; ""Dreadful Chapter Four
Content:
""Allegory""""Affirmation""; ""Future Booth""; ""Raptor""; ""Dreadful Chapter Five""; ""Seven Chimeras""; ""Act V, scene iv""; ""Calumet""; ""Complaint""; ""Dreadful Chapter Six""; ""Like a Tree""; ""THREE""; ""Exodusman""; ""Missive""; ""Canis Apologetica""; ""Dreadful Chapter Seven""; ""The Bootleggers""; ""Feud""; ""Schism""; ""Look Away""; ""Airlift, 1971""; ""Braves""; ""Eclipse""; ""Raid""; ""Relief""; ""Reserve""; ""Dovetail""; ""A Dream of Ash and Soot""; ""Pilgrims
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Manning, Maurice, 1966- Lawrence Booth's book of visions New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001
Language:
English
