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.
In 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.
The 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.
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