The faces of Americans in 1853: Poems (A Breakthrough book)

McNair, Wesley

University of Missouri Press

The Town of No

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

David R Godine Pub

A reissuing of The Faces of Americans in 1853, poetry by Wesley McNair.

The Faces of Americans in 1853 (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary)

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

In the personal and critical essays of Mapping the Heart, Wesley McNair, one of New England's most important poets, reveals the impact of place on his own poetry and the verse of several other New Englanders, past to present. He also explains the ways poets of his climate have influenced each other, how poets think about their craft, and what poetry is.

Mapping the Heart: Reflections on Place and Poetry (Carnegie Mellon Poets in Prose)

Beginning in poverty and a broken home, Wesley McNair went on, through family hardships and setbacks, to become what Philip Levine has called “one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry.” This memoir tells how he developed into a poet against the odds, incorporating his struggles into his art.

The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

More than most states, Maine has always had a rich literary heritage, including such poetic luminaries as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some of the work of these three, plus that of 34 other poets, make up this comprehensive anthology. Editor Wesley McNair has selected the finest poems by Maine's best poets, and the styles range from classic to contemporary. 
Not all of the poems to be found here are exclusively about Maine -- proof of the universal reach and appeal of both region and writer -- but each verse certainly conveys aspects of Maine's unique character, be it a staunch work ethic, a tone of wry Yankee humor, or the morality of Puritan values. Poems were not chosen for their popularity; readers looking for an old favorite might not find it here, but will perhaps be led to a new understanding and appreciation of Maine's poets.

The Maine Poets: A Verse Anthology

Down East Books

In The Maine Poets, editor Wesley McNair has selected work by poets of the state from Longfellow to the present. Chosen for their appeal to the general reader, these poems honor the full vision and diversity of Maine's poets as they address life in Maine and in all human places.

The Maine Poets

The Dissonant Heart

Coyote Love Pr

This book gathers Wesley McNair's two most important collections into one handsome volume. In The Town of No, McNair blends sadness and comedy to remind us of Robert Frost's notion that poetry should make us "very sorry" or "very glad." In My Brother Running, fifteen short poems on rural life are counterbalanced by the extended title piece, a memorial to a brother dead too soon and for reasons that can never be reconciled.

The Town of No & My Brother Running

David R. Godine, Publisher

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