Wesley McNair is a kind of Chekhov of American poetry.”
—Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate
Wesley McNair offers a full vision of human life, both its hardships and its rich possibilities. Opening with poems about growing up with family conflict in a New England of broken farms and towns, McNair explores the limits of personal wishes and American dreams. Here too are haunting encounters with ghost selves, the dead, and the gangsters in old movies; the poignant hopefulness of comb-overs; and a transcendent series of lyrics that celebrate self-acceptance and the spiritual dimension of “life on the ground.”
- ISBN10 1567922937
- ISBN13 9781567922936
- Publish Date 15 June 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English