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.