Manan the Magnificent

By David Appelbaum

David Appelbaum's latest collection, Manan the Magnificent, is a book-length poem-luminous, somber, tangled-where reflection meets fracture. Appelbaum binds ecstatic utterances with loss and renewal, weaving the everyday's sharp edges (decay, grief, philosophical longing) into passages of unexpected hope. The narrator-as with a glass eye-both sees and does not, suggesting a way of perceiving that's at once attentive and distant, lucid and mystified. For readers who dwell in shadow and light alike, Manan the Magnificent offers lines that echo: things once broken still cast reflection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTK2MS5T
• ISBN13: 9798899904264
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"