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Editor's Note

Editor's Note EDITOR'S NOTE JASON HOWARD even years ago, I sat foot in Westminster Abbey for the first Stime. As a staunch Anglophile and lover of history, I was overwhelmed as I walked among the tombs and effigies and quire stalls, sensing the veil grow thin between present and past. But when I reached Poets’ Corner—as I studied the memorials to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A.E. Housman, and William Wordsworth—I was carried for a moment back across the ocean to Appalachia, back to a poet who numbers this trio among his literary heroes. 5 Since the publication of his debut collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, in 2001, Maurice Manning has established himself as one of America’s preeminent poets of the rural, as his subsequent books have considered the life of Daniel Boone, the mysterious Creator of nature called Boss, the voices and stories of old-timers from deep Appalachian hollows, and the “dimming green” that underscores the gradual disappearance of rural life. As this year’s featured author, Manning has provided us with all new work—a clutch of startling poems that contemplates the joy, grief, and inherent mystery of rural life. The tellers of these poems call our attention to a truth “as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Editor's Note

Howard, Jason
Appalachian Review , Volume 45 (4) – Mar 16, 2018
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EDITOR'S NOTE JASON HOWARD even years ago, I sat foot in Westminster Abbey for the first Stime. As a staunch Anglophile and lover of history, I was overwhelmed as I walked among the tombs and effigies and quire stalls, sensing the veil grow thin between present and past. But when I reached Poets’ Corner—as I studied the memorials to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A.E. Housman, and William Wordsworth—I was carried for a moment back across the ocean to Appalachia, back to a poet who numbers this trio among his literary heroes. 5 Since the publication of his debut collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, in 2001, Maurice Manning has established himself as one of America’s preeminent poets of the rural, as his subsequent books have considered the life of Daniel Boone, the mysterious Creator of nature called Boss, the voices and stories of old-timers from deep Appalachian hollows, and the “dimming green” that underscores the gradual disappearance of rural life. As this year’s featured author, Manning has provided us with all new work—a clutch of startling poems that contemplates the joy, grief, and inherent mystery of rural life. The tellers of these poems call our attention to a truth “as

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Published: Mar 16, 2018

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