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The Common Man - Maurice Manning

English
2010-04-01
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The Common Man, Maurice Manningโ€™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 bookโ€™s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is c ... Full description

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The Common Man, Maurice Manningโ€™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 bookโ€™s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he creates a detailed, complex, and poignant portraitโ€”by turns serious and hilarious, philosophical and speculative, but ultimately tragicโ€”of a fast-disappearing aspect of American culture. The Common Manโ€™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 Manningโ€™s reputation as one of his generationโ€™s most important and original voices.

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Author Maurice Manning
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Release year 2010
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9780544303393
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