{"product_id":"gone-and-the-going-away-9780547939957","title":"Gone and the Going Away","description":"Welcome to \"Fog Town Holler,\" Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning's glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories -- not unlike E. A. Robinson's Tilbury Town or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County -- Manning celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of his beloved hill people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Fog Town Holler men have \"funny names,\" like Tiny Too and Eula Loom. A fox is known as Redleg Johnny. A neighbor issues a complaint against an early-rising rooster; another lives in the chicken coop. \"Lawse,\" a woman exclaims, \"the sun can't hardly find this place!\" But they feel the Lord watching, always, as the green water of Shoestring Branch winds its way through hillbilly haunts and memories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe real world no longer resembles the one brought so vividly to life in the poems in these pages, but through his meditations on his boyhood home, Manning is able to recapture what was lost and still, yet, move beyond it. He brings light to this place the sun can't find and brings a lost world beautifully, magically, once again into our present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManning, Maurice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMAURICE MANNING is the author of four previous books of poems. His last book, \u003ci\u003eThe Common Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491817132306,"sku":"9780547939957","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6ad1a4e2-68cd-47ef-a4e5-5a7749b40a1b.jpg?v=1730557147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gone-and-the-going-away-9780547939957","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}