Dear Cousins, The new Boone book arrived in today's mail. A COMPANION FOR OWLS BEING THE COMMON PLACE BOOK OF D. BOONE LONG HUNTER, BACK WOODSMAN, ETC. by Maurice Manning. Amazon.com $15.40 plus SH $2.49 total $17.89. I like the size/shape. There are lots of notes in the back that give some of the facts on which some of the poems are based. The dust jacket looks like grained wood. There is a small drawing of Daniel, with his gun and dog on the cover. I am sure you all remember the one I refer to. On the back of the dust jacket - Praise for the poetry of Maurice Manning "A fresh and brilliant talent." --W.S. Merwin "For all their tale telling these poems are more often mediation and prayer than story. The lucidity and surprise and soulfulness of their language embody an intelligence and sensibility attainable only in high art. A princely priest, one with a lovable sense of humor, has taken up the figure of a backwoodsman, without irony. This is thrilling work." -- James Baker Hall I have not read any of the poems, yet. More comment after reading some. Cousin Ivan of TRAFALGAR