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Take Heart: Poems from Maine the Complete Collection

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Availability:In StockContributor:Wesley McNair (Editor)Publish date:2022-09-01Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Down East BooksISBN-13:9781684750658ISBN-10:1684750652UPC:9781684750658Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Places, Animals & NatureSize:8.53 x 5.54 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCH229EEXC

It is commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings, funerals, and other milestones. Former Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair selected the poems in this anthology for his weekly newspaper column from the work of poets all over Maine, representing a wide cultural view of the state.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Down East BooksISBN-13:9781684750658ISBN-10:1684750652UPC:9781684750658Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Places, Animals & NatureSize:8.53 x 5.54 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCH229EEXC
Called by poet Philip Levine one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry, Wesley McNair is the author of more than twenty books, including the collections Dwellers in the House of the Lord and The Unfastening, as well as The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Poetry and Family. He has twice been invited by the Library of Congress to read his work, and has won the Robert Frost and Theodore Roethke Prizes, grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006 he was selected for a United States Artist Fellowship as one of America's finest living artists, and in 2015 was named the recipient of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry. He lives in Mercer, Maine.
Publisher: Down East Books

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