This semester, the Visiting Writers Program will bring poet and English professor Maurice Manning to campus March 14-15. Manning is the author of multiple collections of poetry, including “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,” “Bucolics,” “The Common Man,” and “The Gone and the Going Away.” Manning has taught at DePauw University and Indiana University, and he...
First, let’s introduce the characters. There’s Red Dog, the loyal companion, and Black Damon, the trusty friend. There’s Mad Daddy, “with the shotgun full of history, / The horse and the flame, and the domino shoes.” And then there’s Lawrence Booth, self-styled hero, lover of nature, brilliant, boisterous, starry-eyed dreamer, and “bull’s-eye boy.” The setting...