{"product_id":"snakedoctor-paperback","title":"Snakedoctor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaurice Manning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom church barn to apple orchard, from snow-covered pasture to secret moonshine cabin, Manning's \u003ci\u003eSnakedoctor \u003c\/i\u003ereinvigorates the Kentucky pastoral through poems that find light in shadow, good in evil, love in a father's stinging blow.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurice Manning returns to the Kentucky countryside in his eighth collection, \u003ci\u003eSnakedoctor\u003c\/i\u003e. Existing between haunting memory and pastoral dreamscape, this quiet collection showcases Manning's storytelling at its finest. Simple, four-beat lines hold epiphanies--\"the barn is just an empty church\"-- and announce visits from seven-foot strangers named Mr. True. Here, God is reimagined as a \"serious banjo player\" who calls the world to sing. And sing Manning does. Through rhyme, blues, and haiku, \u003ci\u003eSnakedoctor\u003c\/i\u003e trains our ears to hear music in the mundane, to find beauty all around us: in the annotated margins of a well-read book, the flight of a father's shadow puppet, the yellow centers of daisies. Punctuated by rain's pitter-patter on a tin wash tub, and the \"ring of lonely\" in a farmer's voice as he calls his cattle home, \u003ci\u003eSnakedoctor\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection that will leave you wanting to dog-ear its pages. From childhood to fatherhood, church barn to apple orchard, moonshine to moonbeam, we leave these poems understanding Manning's wish: \"I wanted to make a prayer and I did, \/ in half-sleep after the dream.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurice Manning is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eRailsplitter \u003c\/i\u003e(2019)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSnakedoctor \u003c\/i\u003e(2023). Manning has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. A former Guggenheim fellow, Manning teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTIME, The Sewanee Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Kentucky with his family.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352601379065,"sku":"9781556596988","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0RuKjj_zgE9781556596988.webp?v=1769811516","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/snakedoctor-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}