- Maurice Manning (poet)
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See also: Maurice Manning
Maurice Manning (born 1966 in Danville, Kentucky)[1] is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin.[2]
Maurice Manning attended Earlham College and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.[1] He was formerly a professor at DePauw University,[3] and now teaches in the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at Indiana University and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[4] Manning began teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. Program in Fall 2004.[5]
Along with Wendell Berry, Silas House, Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, and Anne Shelby, Manning is among the core group of Kentucky writers who have been increasingly active in the fight against mountaintop removal mining, appearing at rallies and protests throughout the state.[6]
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Washington Square, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Wind, Hunger Mountains, Black Warrior Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.[4] His collection, "The Common Man," was one of the two finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[7]
He has held a fellowship to The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown.[8] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.[9]
Contents
Works
- "Three Truths, One Story; The Doctrine Of An Axe; A Psalm To Bring Remembrance; That I Abide With Thee In Case You Wondered". Cortland Review. March 14, 2009. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/07/spring/manning.html.
- Broadside, Counter Balance Arts
- "A Blasphemy; A Wavering Spindle of Forsythia; Moonshine". Reading Between A&B. Fall 2007. http://www.readab.com/mmanning.html.
- "A Blasphemy". Poetry Magazine. May 2007. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179584.
- "Sad and Alone". Poetry Magazine. October 2008. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182264.
Books
- Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. Yale University Press. Spring 2001. ISBN 9780300089981.
- A Companion For Owls. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 09/01/2004. ISBN 9780151010493.
- Bucolics. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. April 2, 2007. ISBN 978-0151013104.
- The Common Man. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. April 9, 2010. ISBN 9780547249612.
Reviews
Not many books of poems put you in mind of Robert Penn Warren, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the brainiac whimsy of McSweeney's quarterly at the same time. In his first book, LAWRENCE BOOTH'S BOOK OF VISIONS (Yale University, cloth, $19; paper, $12), Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim -- he nails his images the way a restless boy, up in a tree with a slingshot, nails anything sentient that wanders into view.[10]
Publishers Weekly:
equal parts carnivorous nightmare, Freudian pastoral, and deep-fired family romance.
In his third collection, Yale Younger Poets prize–winner Manning goes for a new twist on the traditional genre of pastoral poetry: he praises nature, but also engages in a postmodern conversation with a version of a higher power, which he calls "Boss." [11]
Haunting and funny, innovative and heartening, this collection of seventy untitled, unpunctuated poems features a nameless land laborer talking to his creator, whom he calls 'boss.' Not a religious book in the traditional sense, this is rather one of questions, wonder, and, at times, sadness.[12]
References
- ^ a b http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/sycamore/sr/interviewmanning.htm
- ^ http://www.vqronline.org/author/29/maurice-manning
- ^ http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=11607
- ^ a b http://www.readab.com/mmanning.html
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/manning.html
- ^ http://sherrychandler.com/tag/mountaintop-removal/
- ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2011-Poetry
- ^ http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Maurice-Manning.html
- ^ http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/18271.html
- ^ Poetry in Brief; The Lone Deranger Rides Again, Dwight Garner, The New York Times, August 19, 2001
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0151013101/thecortlandrevie/
- ^ Review: Maurice Manning's Bucolics, Anna Clark, Isak
External references
- Faculty: Maurice Manning, Indiana University
- Maurice Manning, All Things Considered, NPR, April 19, 2001
- RADICAL PASTORAL: A CONVERSATION WITH MAURICE MANNING , Lyric Review, November 2006
- Quantum Cowboys and Honky Tonk Heroes: A Conversation with Maurice Manning, Sycamore Review, Summer/Fall 2002 issue, 14.2, Purdue University
- Maurice Manning’s Bedside Table: Books, Music, and Neighbors, The Southeastern Review online
- Review of Common Man at Sycamore Review.
Categories:- Living people
- American poets
- Earlham College alumni
- University of Alabama alumni
- Indiana University faculty
- DePauw University faculty
- 1966 births
- People from Danville, Kentucky
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