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Product Description: 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. This Take Heart anthology--the second collection from Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair's weekly newspaper column--is chosen from the work of poets all over Maine, representing a wide cultural view of the state...read more
By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9781608932986 | Reprint edition (Down East Books, April 1, 2016), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: It is commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry!In this award-winning volume inspired by the impending death of his mother, Wesley McNair, long a poet of New England places, takes a new path, exploring her homeplace in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri...read more

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9781567925197 | David R Godine Pub, April 30, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry!

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Product Description: Arguably America’s most recognized poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the equivalent of a movie star in his day (1807–1882), and his epic poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” and “Song of Hiawatha” helped create the mythic vision of America that still exists today...read more
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9781608932610 | Down East Books, May 16, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Arguably America’s most recognized poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the equivalent of a movie star in his day (1807–1882), and his epic poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” and “Song of Hiawatha” helped create the mythic vision of America that still exists today.

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9781608932221 | Reprint edition (Down East Books, April 16, 2013), cover price $18.99

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Product Description: Praised by Maxine Kumin as a master craftsman and Philip Levine as one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry, Wesley McNair has selected for this volume a wide range of narratives, lyrics, and meditations. His subjects, as always, are ordinary people and the lives they lead; their hopes and sorrows, their struggles and triumphs, all providing insight into New England, America, and the more obscure geography of the human heart...read more

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9781567923988 | David R Godine Pub, February 28, 2010, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Praised by Maxine Kumin as a master craftsman and Philip Levine as one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry, Wesley McNair has selected for this volume a wide range of narratives, lyrics, and meditations.

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Product Description: Here Carolyn Chute, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, Monica Wood, and nine other stellar Maine writers prove that the state is a superb source of inspiration for fiction. They capture Maine's atmospheric landscape, sharply defined seasons ― and an assortment of unforgettable characters...read more
By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9780892727810 | Reprint edition (Down East Books, October 1, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here Carolyn Chute, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, Monica Wood, and nine other stellar Maine writers prove that the state is a superb source of inspiration for fiction.

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By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9780892727605, titled "A Place Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine Experience" | Down East Books, July 1, 2008, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: In this new collection, Wesley McNair offers his fullest 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...read more

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9781567922936 | David R Godine Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this new collection, Wesley McNair offers his fullest vision of human life, both its hardships and its rich possibilities.

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Product Description: 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.
By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9780892726295 | Down East Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Maine's rich literary heritage is represented in the works of thirty-seven Maine poets selected by nationally-recognized poet Wesley McNair.

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9780892727087 | Down East Books, January 30, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In The Maine Poets, editor Wesley McNair has selected work by poets of the state from Longfellow to the present.

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An anthology of short fiction exemplifying the best in Maine writing features fourteen tales, several never before published, by Richard Russo, Richard Ford, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Cathie Pelletier, Carolyn Chute, and others.
By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9780892726936 | Down East Books, September 15, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An anthology of short fiction exemplifying the best in Maine writing features fourteen tales, several never before published, by Richard Russo, Richard Ford, Stephen King, Bill Roorbach, Cathie Pelletier, Carolyn Chute, and others.

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780887483806 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: We are delighted to continue our relationship with Wes McNair, one of New England's best poets, through his newest book of poetry. In this collection his fourth to be published by Godine McNair writes on a wide range of subjects, casting his eye on everything from his own pet dog to an executive's torments in Hell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567921601 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, April 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: We are delighted to continue our relationship with Wes McNair, one of New England's best poets, through his newest book of poetry.

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

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9780887483561 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A reissuing of The Faces of Americans in 1853, poetry by Wesley McNair.

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Product Description: In his fifth collection, one of New England's most respected poets brings us the inhabitants of his region as they struggle to contend with life's darknesses: housewives in night school; a tractor-tinkering stepfather who rescues an outdated encyclopedia from the town dump; a boy at bedtime who, entranced by a woman's voice on a slowing turning phonograph, listens "to her fall/ fast asleep/ with the needle/ at her throat...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567920949 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In his fifth collection, one of New England's most respected poets brings us the inhabitants of his region as they struggle to contend with life's darknesses: housewives in night school; a tractor-tinkering stepfather who rescues an outdated encyclopedia from the town dump; a boy at bedtime who, entranced by a woman's voice on a slowing turning phonograph, listens "to her fall/ fast asleep/ with the needle/ at her throat.

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9781567920567 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 1997), cover price $15.95

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9780913341186 | Coyote Love Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: The best of Maine's contemporary authors celebrate their state in poetry, fiction, and essays that comprise a lively sampler as varied as the state that inspired it. A treasury of works --many previously unpublished--it includes Philip Booth, Franklin Burroughs, Carolyn Chute, Robert Creeley, Amy Clampitt, George Garrett, Susan Kenney, Cathie Pelletier, and 32 others...read more
By Wesley McNair (editor)

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9780874516739 | Univ Pr of New England, May 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The best of Maine's contemporary authors celebrate their state in poetry, fiction, and essays that comprise a lively sampler as varied as the state that inspired it.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780879239855 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book gathers Wesley McNair's two most important collections into one handsome volume.

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Paperback:

9780913341155 | 2 reprint edition (Wesley McNair, October 1, 1992), cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Book by McNair, Wesley

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9780879237592 | David R Godine Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by McNair, Wesley

Paperback:

9780879237608 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by McNair, Wesley

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