A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, Etc - Hardcover

Manning, Maurice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151010498 ISBN 13: 9780151010493

Publisher: Harcourt Brace International, 2004

Synopsis

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"

About this title

Review:

PRAISE FOR THE POETRY OF MAURICE MANNING "A fresh and brilliant talent."-W. S. Merwin

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0151010498
• ISBN 13: 9780151010493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144