In this poignant memoir, poet-novelist Freya Manfred recounts the artistic life and death of her father, the prolific and highly regarded author Frederick Manfred. Using family letters and passages from her father's novels as well as her own memoirs, she explores their powerful personal and literary relationship, which spanned nearly five decades. Freya manfred described what it meant to be the daughter of a strong-willed man who was dedicated, sometimes at great cost, to a creative life. Her story starts with the tender power and beauty of his funeral in 1994, then moves back to a clear-eyed and often humorous depiction of their home life, which was shaped by her father's insistence on the quiet and solitude necessary for his writing. She remembers the shift in their relationship as her literary career blossomed and he added the roles of mentor and friend. Finally, she shares frank and loving detail of her family's struggle to help her father die well.

Frederick Manfred (Midwest Reflections)

Biographies & Memoirs

Manfred, Freya

Arts & Literature

Borealis Books

Minnesota Historical Society Press

Third collection of poems by Freya Manfred, who is the daughter of novelist Frederick Manfred (Feike Feikema).

American Roads

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Overlook Press

American Roads: Limited Edition

Overlook Books

Softcover, as shown, APPEARS NOT READS & with erratum sheet included, 1976 1st thus.  Now...this is an OVER-10 million sales-ranked item, so please do NOT be fooled by any bogus automatic repricing software that gives you any "big" savings of one WHOLE cent less only a day after my listing...those who approve of courtesy anyway to LIVING booksellers will buy my copy -- and, I thank YOU!

Yellow squash woman

Thorp Springs Press

Poetry. In SPEAK, MOTHER, Freya Manfred explores the mystery of dreams, love, and longing, as well as the power of loneliness, illness, fear, and death. In these lyrical, intuitive, and daring poems she brings some awareness and light into the darkness.

Speak, Mother

Red Dragonfly Press

<p>Loon In Late November Water (2018) is Freya Manfred's seventh full-length collection of poems. Her previous collections include Speak Mother (2015) and Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle (2008).</p>

Loon In Late November Water

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Frederick Manfred (Midwest Reflections)

Frederick Manfred (Midwest Reflections)

American Roads

American Roads: Limited Edition

American Roads

Yellow squash woman

Speak, Mother

Loon In Late November Water