Railsplitter
Published on 15. January 2020
84 pages
978-1-61932-212-7 (ISBN)
Description
Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln's persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President's mind while leading a divided nation. Equal parts prophetic and rich in both rural folklore and literary allusions-from Shakespeare, to Whitman, to Poe, to the comedic-Railsplitter transcends the darkness of Lincoln's time, to imagine a new lore entirely-one comprised of buzzard feather quills, horse treats in a top hat, and finally, a fateful bullet. Lincoln, who was born nearby to Maurice Manning's childhood home in Kentucky, is alive again, in new form.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Contents
- Preface
- To a Chigger
- Animadversion
- Upon the Wilmot Proviso
- A Brief Refutation of the Rumor That I Allowed Willie and Tad to Relieve Themselves in My Up-Turned Hat on a Sunday Morning at the Office while Their Mother Was Attending Religious Services
- Knob Creek
- Three Cheers for the Know-Nothings
- Transcendentalism
- The Sound of the Earth Convulsing
- Little Billy Herndon
- Young Men's Lyceum
- By God I Was a Sly Gesticulating Fool
- John Brown's Baby Has a Cold upon His Chest
- Learning to Write with a Feather
- On Having a Fondness for Sentimental Songs and Verses
- The Human Imagination, 1855
- A Barrel Full of Pickled Pigs' Feet
- That Part of the Country Is, within Itself, as Unpoetical as Any Spot of the Earth
- The Smell of Open Ground in Spring
- The Long and Short of the Matter
- To the People of Sangamo County
- The Gift of Prophecy
- The Winter of My Discontent
- Honest Abe's Couplet Machine
- You Sockdologizing Old Man-Trap
- An Old Track in the Woods
- On Silence
- Hen Bit
- Vulgarity: An Ode
- Rhyme Royal on Eloquence
- A Plank from the Platform
- Euclid
- The Fool
- The Philosophy of Composition
- Speaking to Mary after a Speech
- Dogwood
- Epigrams for Epitaphs
- Testament
- The Art of Poetry
- Ballad of Pigeon Creek
- Aside. Wormwood, wormwood
- When One Is with Strong Wind Oppressed
- The End of Days
- The Audience
- An Essay on Man
- Nonce
- A Synonym for Life
- Reading Burns as a Boy below a Tree
- I Sends This for You to Look At You Must Not Laugh At It
- Madstone Alexanders
- Belonging to the Ages
- Railsplitter
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Books by Maurice Manning
- Copyright
- Special thanks
