Trippingly on the Tongue: Featured Poetry by Maurice Manning
by Nick Ripatrazone
Oct 15, 2019
1 minute
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem by ‘s new collection, . Written in the persona of Abraham Lincoln, the poems are by, we feel his struggle toward ghostly moderation: “gestures must not be over done, or else / Chaos will upend the unity desired.”
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