Maurice Manning in 2013. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Maurice Manning (born 1966)[1] is an American poet and academic..
Life[]
Manning was born in Danville, Kentucky.
He attended Earlham College and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.[1]
He was formerly a professor at DePauw University,[2] and then taught in the Creative Writing Program (Master of Fine Arts ) at Indiana University and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[3] Manning began teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. Program in Fall 2004.[4]
In January 2012 he was hired by Transylvania University, a small liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky, to begin teaching full time in September.[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.[3]
Writing[]
New York Times: "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.[7]
Publishers Weekly: "equal parts carnivorous nightmare, Freudian pastoral, and deep-fired family romance."
Cortland Review: "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'." [8]
Anna Clark: "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."[9]
Recognition[]
His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.S. Merwin.[10]
His collection, "The Common Man," was one of the two finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[11]
He has held a fellowship to The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, Rhode Island.[12] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.[13]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-300-08998-1
- Fables. Tuscaloosa, AL: Narcissus Press / Speak Easy Press, 2002.
- A Companion For Owls: Being the commonplace book of D. Boone, long hunter, back woodsman, etc. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. ISBN 978-0-15-101310-4
- Twenty-Four Old Regulars: Poems (with engravings by Gaylord Schanilec). Carrollton, OH: Press on Scroll Road, 2008.
- A Primer for the Apprehension of Heaven (illustrated by John Andrew Dixon). Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2009.
- The Persimmon Tree (with Kerri Cushman; illustrated by Deborah Derr McClintock). Farmville, VA: Performing Goats Press, [2010?]
- The Common Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. ISBN 978-0-547-24961-2
- The Gone and the Going Away. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Edited[]
- The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, poets, process (poems & essays; edited with Eleanor Wilner). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Maurice Manning - Moonshine.avi
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[14]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/sycamore/sr/interviewmanning.htm
- ↑ http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=11607
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Three poems by Maurice Manning, Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007. Web, Oct. 21, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/manning.html
- ↑ http://www.transy.edu/news/arch_story.htm?id=716
- ↑ http://sherrychandler.com/tag/mountaintop-removal/
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.vqronline.org/author/29/maurice-manning
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Search results = au:Maurice Manning 1966, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 21, 2015.
External references[]
- Poems
- Broadside, Counter Balance Arts
- Three Poems by Maurice Manning (A Blasphemy; A Wavering Spindle of Forsythia; Moonshine) at Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007
- "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.
- Maurice Manning b. 1966 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Maurice Manning at YouTube
- Maurice Manning, All Things Considered, NPR, April 19, 2001
- Books
- Maurice Manning at Amazon.com
- About
- Faculty: Maurice Manning, Indiana University
- Maurice Manning’s Bedside Table: Books, Music, and Neighbors, The Southeastern Review online
- Review of Common Man at Sycamore Review.
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