Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300089981)

This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man child in the rural South. Presenting a cast of allegorical and symbolic, yet very real, characters, the poems have "authority, daring, [and] a language of color and sure movement," says series judge W.S. Merwin.
From Seven Chimeras

The way Booth makes a love story:
same as a regular story, except
under one rock is a trapdoor that leads
to a room full of belly buttons;
each must be pushed, one is a landmine.

The way Booth makes hope:
thirty-seven acres, Black Damon,
Red Dog. Construct a pillar of fire
in the Great Field and let it become
unquenchable.

The way Booth ends the Jack-in-the-Box charade:
shoot the weasel in the neck
and toss it to the buzzards.

The way Booth thinks of salvation:
God holding a broken abacus,
colored beads falling away.

Author: Maurice Manning
ISBN-10: 0300089988
ISBN-13: 9780300089981
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2001
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.40h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2001 pg. 70
New York Times 08/19/2001 pg. 17
Library Journal 11/15/2001 pg. 71
Multicultural Review 12/01/2001 pg. 76