Wed. October 27, 2004 Dear Cousins and Friends of Kentucky, Received a booklet a day or two ago and just looked through it last evening. The 23nd Annual Kentucky Book Fair booklet. The event is in Frankfort, Ky. Sat , Nov. 13, 2004 http://www.kybookfair.org/ Not sure how I got on the mailing list. Perhaps through membership in The Filson Club. The following caught my eye. "Maurice Manning's A COMPANION FOR OWLS, written in the voice of Daniel Boone, captures all the beauty and struggle in the birth of America." p. 3 Maurice Manning Daniel Boone began his first trip to Kentucky in May of 1769 and helped establish the earliest settlements in what became the first state in America's early history never to have been under British colonial authority. Written in the voice of frontiersman Boone, Manning's A COMPANION FOR OWLS captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America and the birth of a new nation. Manning follows Boone;s progression in war and in the wilderness - as he meets the Cherokee, the Shawnee and the Delaware peoples, witnesses bountiful animals and great, undisturbed rivers. With a complete view of the man and not the legend, the reader stands aside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry. A COMPANION FOR OWLS brings to life one man's incredible journey and one nation's incredible beginnings. Manning was born in Lexington and grew up in Danville. He earned a BA from Earlham College: an MA in English from the University of Kentucky; and an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama. He Teaches English at Indiana University. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review: the Virginia Quarterly Review and The New Yorker. ################# Maurice Manning Maurice Manning April 19, 2001 -- As part of our continuing poetry series throughout the month of April, 35-year-old poet Maurice Manning shares his work. Manning is a first-year professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He was born and raised in Kentucky and he has always stayed close to his home. His poetry reflects his feelings about the land the culture that surrounds him. Last year Manning was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Series -- the longest-running poetry prize in America. Yale University Press is currently publishing Manning's first book, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions and it should come out this spring. Listen as Manning talks about his poetry for All Things Considered. ################### Maurice Manning Maurice Manning is a native of Kentucky and the author of LAWRENCE BOOTH'S BOOK OF VISIONS, which was published in Spring 2001 by Yale University Press and which was the recipient of the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, selected by W. S. Merwin. Manning's second collection of poetry, A COMPANION FOR OWLS: BEING THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF D. BOONE, LONG HUNTER, BACK WOODSMAN, &c, will be published in Fall 2004 by Harcourt. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Washington Square, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Wind, Hunger Mountains, Black Warrior Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has held a fellowship to The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown. LAWRENCE BOOTH'S BOOK OF VISIONS includes 58 poems featuring Lawrence Booth, a fictional character described by Publishers Weekly as "equal parts carnivorous nightmare, Freudian pastoral, and deep-fired family romance." Presenting a cast of allegorical and symbolic, yet very real, characters, Manning's poems have "authority, daring, and a language of color and sure movement," wrote Yale Series of Younger Poets Award judge W. S. Merwin. A COMPANION FOR OWLS is a collection of highly original narrative poems written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone, a work that captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. Manning begins full-time teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. Program in Fall 2004. ################## Also mentioned in the Booklet about the Book Fair WESTWARD INTO KENTUCKY; THE NARRATIVE OF DANIEL TRABUE with a new forward by Smith. Daniel Trabue (1760-1840) was one of these dreamers. A Virginian, Trabue crossed the Appalachians with his family in 1785 to settle in Kentucky's upper Green River Valley. He founded the town of Columbia, where in 1827 he wrote his memories of Kentucky as frontier, first release of this manuscript in 1981. The book will be re-released this year. ############## The Manning book sounds great. I have already ordered the Manning book from http://www.amazon.com/ Have any of you heard of this book? (Ken may be able to tell us if there is a connection with the Boones. At any rate, it should fit in with materials of The Daniel Boone and Frontier Families Association.) Shared by Friend/Cousin Ivan D. Lancaster of Trafalgar Member of The Boone Society and The Daniel Boone and Frontier Families Association