One Man's Dark

One Man’s Dark, the sixth collection from Pulitzer finalist Maurice Manning, epitomizes the storytelling tradition of his native rural South in poems rich with mythology and lyric beauty. In vivid detail that draws as readily from dreams as from waking life, Manning honors what is rapidly vanishing: the people, landscapes, and things of a world making way for an uncertain and less spiritual future. Like songs sung from a warm porch, these revelatory poems chronicle not only the narratives that have gathered and bound a community over time but also the lyrics that have questioned it, too, in gorgeously intimate and personal terms.