Wesley McNair is a kind of Chekhov of American poetry." Opening with poems about growing up with family conflict in a New England of broken farms and towns, poet Wesley 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...
--Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate
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