{"product_id":"9781619321601","title":"One Man's Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Manning's genius—his truly staggering genius—is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly, idiosyncratically his own.\" —\u003ci\u003eSmartish Pace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He's saved himself with the most basic of things—a place, its people, and one of its songs.\" —\u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulitzer finalist Maurice Manning is at the height of his powers as he searches through layers of dreams, imagination, and memory to reconnect with oneself and one's place in the cosmos. Drawing deep from his Kentucky roots, Manning's poems are peopled with ordinary and extraordinary rural characters, as he gives voice to a region well-loved and full of tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Something to Say about Possums\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI've taken so many backward steps,\u003cbr\u003eI have believed history\u003cbr\u003ecan be explained, only to learn,\u003cbr\u003elike sin, it can't. How I've needed more\u003cbr\u003eand more forgiveness! I've needed grace,\u003cbr\u003eand followed it into a dream\u003cbr\u003eof green and yellow light coming\u003cbr\u003efrom a-way on high, maybe a mountain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaurice Manning\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Common Man\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and \u003ci\u003eLawrence Booth's Book of Visions\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2000 Yale Younger Poetry Series Award, selected by W.S. Merwin. A Guggenheim Fellow, he currently teaches at Transylvania University and is on the permanent faculty of Warren Wilson College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151697395952,"sku":"9781619321601","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619321601_p0.jpg?v=1763859168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619321601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}