Your Sun, Manny [Paperback]

Marie Harris (Author)

Book Description

Series: MVP | Publication Date: October 15, 1999

This is the second book in our Marie Alexander pros poetry series. In Your Sun, Manny, Marie Harris has created a prose poem memoir that reveals in touching detail her story of adopting and caring for Manny, a child who was abused and neglected until he was fourteen, when Harris and her husband made him a part of their family.

"Take this book to your heart and carry it away. The beauty and expressiveness of the author's words will renew your faith in the possibility of using language to capture experience and make it glow with meaning."—Laurel Speer, contributing editor, Small Press Review

"This is a complex story of hard-earned successes and brilliantly achieved failures, a story full of humor and wisdom and love."—Erica Funkhouser, author of The Actual World

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Community
Driving Lessons
Family
Futures
History Lessons
Jobs And Money
Rescue
Rite Of Passage
School
Sports
Traveling Man
Wednesday's Child
The World Outside
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Marie Harris

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: White Pine Press; 1st edition (October 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898232058
• ISBN-13: 978-0898232059
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small but mighty, January 5, 2000

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julie a brown - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Sun, Manny (Paperback)

The poetic resonance of Marie Harris'words will linger with you long after you have finished this remarkable memoir only 77 pages in length. This is a little book with a big story to tell and it is told in a MASTERFUL way. This book has more punch and breadth to it than a work five times its size. The author, the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, uses her skill as a poet to pluck out the most powerful and essential elements of the story about her adopted son, Manny, a 14 year old Puerto Rican teenager. This bittersweet (often humorous) bite of reality will transport you to both physical addresses and emotional places....accomplished with the minimalistic artisty of a very talented wordsmith. And, OH, the words on those pages! Is it prose? Yes! Is it poetry? Yes! Is it music? It sings! Is it a schmaltzy, run-of-the-mill melodramatic, "Hallmark commercial"-type book?... NO! NEVER! (no puppies or children die...just a few unnamed chickens) It's a love story which is never precious or sappy/ sentimental. This book deserves to be widely distributed and read.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter, December 9, 1999

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Jean Martin (Candia, New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Sun, Manny (Paperback)

Marie Harris's book took my heart. I can relate to Manny through my own adopted daughter who is now 10 and has been living with us only 15 months. Love is not always the whole answer but children like Manny and my daughter change the world around them for the better. I have read many books on adopting the older child but Marie's presentation is so beautiful her story will appeal on many levels.

5.0 out of 5 stars What Love is All About, May 24, 2000

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Joseph G. Murray (Waterford, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Sun, Manny (Paperback)

A touching story that will stay with you for many years to come. It demonstrates in a prose that is poetry how true love means perseverance in the gift of self to the other, neither measuring how much nor counting how often.