We Were Once Here

By Michael McFee

In We Were Once Here, Michael McFee continues to write inventive appreciations of often-overlooked subjects, particularly the people and language of his native Appalachia. This new collection contains thoughtful and playful celebrations of such things as snoring, a wall telephone from the 1960s, yardsticks, the Sunday newspaper, and Fats Waller. It also extends the poet's characteristic lyric keenness into longer work, including a twenty-one-part centerpiece elegy for his niece. The book concludes with, and is framed by, poems that explore the bittersweet enduring joys of "here."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486207
• ISBN13: 9780887486203
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"