The Cotton Mill Blues: poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1517512905 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. His Marching to Cold Harbor: Victory and Failure, 1864, is currently available on and from White Mane Press. Born to a large family of eight children, he witnessed the challenges of life in an industrial town in the 1950's and 1960's in a rapidly changing America. Ronald Maney grew up in Clinchfield, a neighborhood of the town of Marion, North Carolina. He was able to achieve a college education, and taught public school for 37 years. A life-long student of
Many of Maney's poems focus on his attitudes on love, family disfunction, the loss of connections, poverty in a world of burgeoning wealth, and youthful confusion in the troubling era of the 1960's into mature themes of later decades.. The 78 poems within the collection, The Cotton Mill Blues, begin with the author's recall of his experiences at work in a Southern textile factory while still in his teens, and proceed to touch upon, in vivid detail, many of the people and influences from his life in a mid-twentieth century cotton mill village. Ronald Maney's poetry recounts the personal stories and subsequent development of a unique world-view, particularly
The Constant Traveler said Pure Poetry!. This volume of poetry is an extraordinary powerhouse of emotion! Maney's deft handling of language brings a unique experience to the reader. His voice is strong, raw and truthful. This is poetry with an intensity rarely found since T. S. Eliot. A must-read for serious poetry lovers
About the Author Ronald Maney grew up in Clinchfield, a neighborhood of the town of Marion, North Carolina. He was able to achieve a college education, and taught public school for 37 years. Born to a large family of eight children, he witnessed the challenges of life in an industrial town in the 1950's and 1960's in a rapidly changing America. His Marching to Cold Harbor: Victory and Failure, 1864, is currently available on and from White Mane Press. . A life-long student of the American Civil War, Maney's research led him to publish in 1994, one of the first fully researched studies of the Battle of Cold