A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, EtcHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - 128 Seiten 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 Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter ... Maurice Manning Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter ... Maurice Manning Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American bear beauty believe blood bones Boone Boone's born brother buffalo buried called cave child Consider curious Daniel death Description difference earth edition emigrate England English face fact fall fancy final fire frontier give ground hair hand head horse human hunting imagination Imlay Imlay's Indians interest John Kentucky killed kind knowledge known land later leave letter light lines live look loss Lyrical Ballads man's manner matter mean mind Missouri moral move narrative nature never night Notes perhaps poem political possible powder praise present Quaker questions Rebecca rendered rifle river Romantic salt says Season seems sense shape Shawnee slave sleep soul Squire stone suggests surely thing thought tree turn walked wild wilderness wind woman Wordsworth yore
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