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    Bucolics
    Bucolics
    Bucolics
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    Bucolics

    By Maurice Manning

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    Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.

    that bare branch that branch made black

    by the rain the silver raindrop

    hanging from the black branch

    Boss I like that black branch

    I like that shiny raindrop Boss

    tell me if I’m wrong but it makes

    me think you’re looking right

    at me now isn’t that a lark for me

    to think you look that way

    upside down like a tree frog

    Boss I’m not surprised at all

    I wouldn’t doubt it for

    a minute you’re always up

    to something I’ll say one thing

    you’re all right all right you are

    even when you’re hanging Boss

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 3, 2008
    ISBN9780547350646
    Bucolics
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    Maurice Manning

    MAURICE MANNING is the author of four previous books of poems. His last book, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

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