Manan the Magnificent by David Appelbaum

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Manan the Magnificent

by David Appelbaum

Full-length, paper

979-8-89990-426-4

2026

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David Appelbaum’s latest collection, Mana, 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. #loss #renewal #hope #poetry

David Appelbaum, founder of Codhill Press, has served time in the university as well as in publishing. Former editor of Parabola Magazine, he is the author of Everyday Spirits [SUNY Press], notes on water [Monkfish], and more recently, Portuguese Sailor Boy and The Collector of Lapsed Times [both, Black Spring Publishing Group].