The Ghosts of You and Me

by Wesley McNair and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Wesley McNair is a kind of Chekhov of American poetry."
--Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567922937
• ISBN13: 9781567922936
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"