Böcker av Michael Mcfee

"Michael McFee's twelfth collection of poetry explores challenging subjects-the realities of aging, the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the disappearance of Appalachian culture-in poems that discover enduring pleasures in the details of our everyday lives. It also includes vivid, lively, and imaginative responses to quirky words, a jazz standard, family members, celebrities, and several paintings. As one reader has said, "In his poems filled with quotidian experience, the objects of the material world shimmer with consequence: they are alight with attention-McFee's, and through his art, ours. He is one of our best poets.""--

Michael McFee's new book takes its title from the unofficial motto of the US Postal Service: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". This lively and wide-ranging collection of fifty essays addresses McFee's appointed rounds, subjects he has been thinking and caring about for decades.

For over three decades, Michael McFee has been, in the words of one critic, putting together a body of work that few poets anywhere, of any age, can match for its poise, its wit and metaphorical power, its accessibility and depth of feeling. That Was Oasis, McFee's eighth full-length book of poetry, is a collection of spirited and diverse elegies. Its poems pay inventive attention to the overlooked or underappreciated, to such subjects as saltines, holding hands, killing a copperhead with a hoe, the word bunk, bald spots, the young Thelonious Monk, and a minor-league baseball park in Asheville, North Carolina--all of which, seen in the right light, can become unexpected oases in the quotidian.

A collection of poetry by Michael McFee.