Bucolics : poems / Maurice Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Maurice, 1966-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., [2007]

Summary:

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this 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 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 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

Contents:

Boss of the grassy green 1

Did you ever have a nickname Boss 3

The night is trotting toward me Boss 4

What color is your collar Boss 5

You're the hay maker Boss 7

Do you get happy Boss do you 8

Do you have a table 9

O Boss sometimes you take it all 10

Are you ever sorry Boss ever 11

You spread the nighttime Boss 12

I told that old dog he 13

Why Boss why do the days drift by 14

Are you ever in my chest Boss 15

If you had a feed sack Boss what 16

How big is your hand Boss hold it up 17

The light inside the shadow how 18

I like the weaving bees I like 19

There was a fox Boss in my dream 20

You swirl the dirt like nobody's business 21

I've got butterflies Boss 22

You make it all seem easy Boss 23

Yes I've tried to hide my face 24

Did you pull yourself up by your bootstraps Boss 26

I'm sure you've got a sweet spot 27

I guess you've got a lot 28

You toss the stars like clover seed 29

That bare branch that branch made black 30

The two of us we're cut 31

Boss of the blue sky boss 32

You move in every direction 33

Did you teach the woodpecker how 34

The birds the bugs even the trees Boss 35

When you push the clouds so close together Boss 36

The river looks so level Boss 37

Is that you Boss is that 38

Of course I like the sun 40

Do you have a busy season Boss 41

I'm happy Boss happy as a bird 43

Did you boss the horse against the barn 44

Is there another sky besides 46

The field is flatter than 48

Unless my nose is itchy Boss 49

If I say I've sprung the spring in my step 50

I wonder Boss in all 51

Before my eye was burning like 52

The way that buzzard hops it makes 53

I put my face against 54

When I chop wood you warm me twice 55

O boss of ashes boss of dust 56

I've got a picture of you Boss 57

I got up early Boss the moon 58

Your other favorite word 59

I'm like an oak tree Boss O 61

You windy blowhard Boss 62

Do you put your trousers on one leg 64

Are you against me Boss 65

Say what have you got underneath 66

Guess what Boss I'm not even 67

When I see the shadow of the hawk 68

Can I say whew to you now Boss 69

You let out light to tease the shadows 70

Listen Boss don't think that I 72

My hay day Boss is every day 73

If I didn't know you better Boss 74

The first hawk you hung up in the sky 76

You know that little song 77

It doesn't bother me Boss to have 78

Is your barn stuffed to the roof beam 79

Beyond the field this time 80

Would you trade hee-haws with a crow 82

Does an old dog toll beside you Boss 84

You leave a little night inside 86

Would you be lonesome if I swam 87

We've always been like this 89

You raise the hawk you hoist the crows 90

Thank you for the leaf Boss 92

Am I your helper Boss or am 93

I've got one thing to say to you 94.

ISBN:

0151013101

9780151013104

OCLC:

71006755