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Lawrence Booths Book of Visions
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This years winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Mannings Lawrence Booths 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.From Publishers WeeklyLawrence Booth is a vigorous, trash-talking, frustrating and entirely made-up young man from a rural South thats equal parts carnivorous nightmare, Freudian pastoral and deep-fried family romance. Manning, who hails from Kentucky, becomes the latest in the venerable Yale Younger Poets series (now judged by W.S. Merwin) with these sometimes over-the-top, often surprisingly difficult poems about Lawrences boyhood and youth in a sweet tobacco, cornmeal, archetypal world. Sonnets, catalogues, shaped poems and non sequitur-filled rambles consider Booths gradeschool days, his vivid nights, his television-viewing habits, his explorations on foot, his difficult sister and his comic attacks on his regions heritage. Manning also depicts Lawrences companions the vicious, overwhelming father Mad Daddy Red Dog, a faithful dog Missionary Woman, a love interest God the devil and Black Damon, a young African-American who speaks seven of his own poems (called Dreadful Chapter One, Dreadful Chapter Two, and so on) in a deliberately outrageous minstrel dialect (Red Dog barkie echo plum back to the house). Mannings mesh of voices, fears and incidents (not to mention his blackface moments) recalls John Berrymans Dream Songs, and Merwin notes the similarities in a perceptive foreword. Yet Mannings adventurously uneven verses bring him close to ambitious Southerners, from Robert Penn Warren to Frank Stanford his often antirealist forms seek to capture a South many people will find incredible. (Aug.)Forecast Merwins third pick for Yale since becoming its judge is also his second Southern-set, book-length sequence in a row, following last years Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs. Yales prestigious first-book series reached its peak in the 50s, when then-judge W.H. Auden picked (among others) Ashbery, Hollander, Rich and Merwin himself. But with the right regional and national publicity, this uneven volume could do well. 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.ReviewManning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim-he nails [his] images. -- Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review [Mannings] antirealist forms seek to capture a South many people will find incredible. -- Publishers Weekly
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This years winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Mannings Lawrence Booths 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.From Publishers WeeklyLawrence Booth is a vigorous, trash-talking, frustrating and entirely made-up young man from a rural South thats equal parts carnivorous nightmare, Freudian pastoral and deep-fried family romance. Manning, who hails from Kentucky, becomes the latest in the venerable Yale Younger Poets series (now judged by W.S. Merwin) with these sometimes over-the-top, often surprisingly difficult poems about Lawrences boyhood and youth in a sweet tobacco, cornmeal, archetypal world. Sonnets, catalogues, shaped poems and non sequitur-filled rambles consider Booths gradeschool days, his vivid nights, his television-viewing habits, his explorations on foot, his difficult sister and his comic attacks on his regions heritage. Manning also depicts Lawrences companions the vicious, overwhelming father Mad Daddy Red Dog, a faithful dog Missionary Woman, a love interest God the devil and Black Damon, a young African-American who speaks seven of his own poems (called Dreadful Chapter One, Dreadful Chapter Two, and so on) in a deliberately outrageous minstrel dialect (Red Dog barkie echo plum back to the house). Mannings mesh of voices, fears and incidents (not to mention his blackface moments) recalls John Berrymans Dream Songs, and Merwin notes the similarities in a perceptive foreword. Yet Mannings adventurously uneven verses bring him close to ambitious Southerners, from Robert Penn Warren to Frank Stanford his often antirealist forms seek to capture a South many people will find incredible. (Aug.)Forecast Merwins third pick for Yale since becoming its judge is also his second Southern-set, book-length sequence in a row, following last years Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs. Yales prestigious first-book series reached its peak in the 50s, when then-judge W.H. Auden picked (among others) Ashbery, Hollander, Rich and Merwin himself. But with the right regional and national publicity, this uneven volume could do well. 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.ReviewManning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim-he nails [his] images. -- Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review [Mannings] antirealist forms seek to capture a South many people will find incredible. -- Publishers Weekly
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