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Christopher Manieri

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Toronto, Canada

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Poetry, Fiction

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Christopher Manieri is a Canadian poet and novelist with a great love for literature. Residing near Toronto, Ontario, he is a graduate of York University. He also has a deep interest in philosophy and history.

(Former pen name: Christopher Manners)

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Average rating: 4.6 · 67 ratings · 59 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Voyage 4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemplations 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ascent 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existence 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Christopher Manieri and 3 other people liked Grady's review of Ascent: "Overcoming – and hope. Radiant poetry! Canadian poet Christopher Manieri offers a Gilead with his eloquent poems that provide sensitive moments of courage to transcend the flaws of ‘now’ in seeking hope and reassurance for the future. His poetic utter" Read more of this review »
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Christopher Manieri rated a book it was amazing From the Book of Dreams: A Collection of Poems (The Passion & Reason Poetry Series) by Joe Giampaolo (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A beautiful collection of poetry, Joe Giampaolo’s, “From the Book of Dreams”, provides potent poems which are both emotional and profound. There is a natural flow to the work and an appealing authenticity of expression. From his early youth in Rome t ...more
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Christopher Manieri and 1 other person liked Marianne Mersereau's review of Ascent: "Christopher Manieri’s Ascent is a moving collection of contemplative poetry. In luminous lines, the poet asks us to meditate on true joy that “can only be found in the Infinite.” Manieri doesn’t ignore the complexities and sorrows of life in these st" Read more of this review »
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A captivating collection of poetry, “Only and Again” conveys both deep emotion and profound thought. Pickering shows that he is an authentic love poet, driven by a great appreciation for beauty, that deeper beauty which points to the spiritual dimens ...more
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Aug 20, 2022 08:49PM

Hi Christopher! Thank you for the friendship and the book suggestion. Happy reading! 🌻
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” ~Wordsworth

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