A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c
by Manning, Maurice
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- 0151010498
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010493
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This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry. Praised for his originality, Maurice Manning is an exciting new voice in American poetry. The darkest place I've ever been did not require a name. It seemed to be a gathering place for the lint of the world. The bottom of a hollow beneath two ridges, sunk like a stone. The water was surely old, the dregs of some ancient sea, but purified by time, like a man made better by his years, his old hurts absorbed into his soul, his losses like a spring in his breast. -from "Born Again"
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- A Squared Books (US)
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- SKU1161417
- Title
- A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c
- Author
- Manning, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151010498
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010493
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2004-09-05
- Size
- 6x0x8
- X weight
- 13 oz
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