About the book
When a family of Irish singers and poets becomes host to a viral genome
in the form of a prankster demon, toadstools sprout in the wilds of the
mind. Yodeling Fungus is poet Manning’s opus to placate and
exorcize “Guzman,” freeing his family from possession.
Sample of the work:
Rent-a-Family
Can we rent you our family
for the Golden Dragon Restaurant?
For your dining pleasure
we come in various configurations--
With 4 you’ll get extra egg rolls,
with 5 you’ll get bird’s nest soup.
With 6 comes hot spring noodle.
But with 7 they proclaim
The Heavenly Year of The Dragon again!
(even when it’s not the dragon’s year).
They’ll bring around the venerable Komodo
they keep penned-up in back,
with its green jade necklace and silver chain.
It will breathe its fiery breath on you
and make the blandest rice Hunan,
and your litchi nuts hot and sour.
About the Author
David T. Manning, a Pushcart nominee and three-time winner of the North
Carolina Poetry Society’s Poet Laureate Award, has work appearing
in many journals and is author of seven poetry chapbooks, most recently
Continents
of Light (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His full-length collection,
The Flower Sermon, was published by Main Street Rag in 2007. David,
a former organic chemist, lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife
Doris and two mischievous cats.
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