Common Man（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　The Common Man, Maurice Manning’s fourth collection, is a
series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed
iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the landscape
and the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the
old-timers who were his neighbors, friends, and family of the
Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child. Playing off the
book’s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple.
Instead, he creates a detailed, complex, and poignant portrait–by
turns serious and hilarious, philosophical and speculative, but
ultimately tragic–of a fast-disappearing aspect of American
culture. The Common Man’s accessibility and its enthusiastic and
sincere charms make it the perfect antidote to the glib ironies
that characterize much contemporary American verse. It will also
help to strengthen Manning’s reputation as one of his generation’s
most important and original voices.

Moonshine
The Mute
A Bestiary
A Wavering Spindle of Forsythia
The Pupil
A Prayer to God My God in a Time of Desolation
Three Truths, One Story
Hey, Sidewinder
A Blasphemy
The Old Clodhopper’s Aubade
Ars Poetica Shaggy and Brown
Emptying a Rain Gauge
Sowing Butter Beans with a Stick
Dead Tree, Two Crows, Morning Fog
Thunderbolt, My Foot
The Burthen of the Mysterv Indeed
A Panegyric Against the Consolation of Grief
A Wringer Washer on the Porch’
For the Last Time, No, I’m Not the Rabbit Man
That Durned Ole Via Negativa
The Lord He Thought He’d Make a Man
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