Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems

Wesley McNair is a regional pastoral poet from Western Maine who is writing the best poetry of his life. His career-spanning collection brings together his best poems from the past four decades, showcasing his ability to address our larger moment with tenderness and insight. McNair's "place" is unlimited, and he is considered one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry. The collection includes the complete trilogy of his masterful long narrative poems, "The Long Dream of Home."

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc

Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life—poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment.

Wesley McNair's story-like poems have long celebrated eccentrics and misfits, the hopeful and the lost, with a tenderness that transcends the everyday. This career-spanning collection brings together his very best poems from the past four decades alongside his newest poems.

Since the publication of his first book in the early 1980s, Wesley McNair has earned a reputation as a poet of place, an intimate observer of the speech and character of New England. In fact, McNair's "place" is unlimited, as he proves in the lucid, far-ranging poems of this volume. "Whole lives fill small lines," wrote Donald Hall of McNair's work. He is truly, as Philip Levine wrote, "One of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry."

Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems includes "The Long Dream of Home," the complete trilogy of McNair's masterful, long narrative poems written over the last thirty years: "My Brother Running," "Fire," and "Dwellers in the House of the Lord." This is a collection for anyone who believes mixing a little sorrow and little comedy makes for poetry that moves the heart.

Weight: 606g
Dimension: 164 x 236 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781567927429