Harvest of youth Book

I spent a long time with this book because I like Maurice Manning's poetry and, being a Kentuckian, I'm interested in this period of Kentucky's history. I found that I appreciate the poems more the more I lived with them. The interesting thing about using Boone seems to me to be that, while he is an American icon, he is also a fictional construct. His legend lends itself to reinvention. Manning's Boone is less hero, more contemplative. Manning is a metaphysical thinker, a man of the people, and a nature poet. Interesting combination.

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