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Poetry. In SPEAK, MOTHER, Freya Manfred explores the mystery of dreams, love, and longing, as well as the power of loneliness, illness, fear, and death. In these lyrical, intuitive, and daring poems she brings some awareness and light into the darkness.
Freya Manfred's new collection explores the connections between experience, memory, and emotion. Her yearning crystallizes in images of nature or of loved ones now present or vividly remembered. These glimpses of a life richly lived unfold with the simplicity and imaginative concreteness of a true master.
Poetry. "Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet"--Philip Roth.
This book of poems contains two parts, 'Giving Birth' and 'The Lake that Whispers to Itself'; the first part celebrates family, the second, a poem sequence in four seasons, commemorates a lake.
The author recounts the life and death of her father, the prolific and highly regarded author Frederick Manfred. Using family letters and passages from her father's novels as well as her own memories, she explores their personal and literary relationship, which spanned nearly five decades.
American frontiersman Hugh Glass, left to die in the hostile mountain wilderness, journeys two hundred miles in search of revenge
Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.
Loon In Late November Water (2018) is Freya Manfred's seventh full-length collection of poems. Her previous collections include Speak Mother (2015) and Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle (2008).
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