David Treadway Manning

Sailing the Bright Stream David Treadway Manning

In Sailing the Bright Stream: New & Selected Poems, David Treadway Manning, Three-time winner of the North Carolina Poetry Society's Poet Laureate Award, offers us an in-depth look at his writing career that spans seven decades, taking readers from this young rowdy days in California, to philosophical conversations around campfires in the deserts of the Southwest, to small-town mechanics in the mountains of West Virginia. From his ten poetry chapbooks and three full-length collections, Manning brings us his best and most personal poems, a journey readers will remember and revisit often.