North Carolina is well known for its fiction writers, but the state is also home to a number of the nation's best poets. In the past few decades, these poets have produced memorable work and received numerous honors. A companion to the contemporary North Carolina fiction anthology The Rough Road Home (1992), this book provides a substantial sampling of their recent bounty. Poet Michael McFee has chosen from eight to twenty poems by each of fifteen poets. There is a refreshing diversity in the voices, from James Applewhite's down east tobacco farmer to Gerald Barrax's passionate urban...
North Carolina is well known for its fiction writers, but the state is also home to a number of the nation's best poets. In the past few decades, thes...
As readers across America know by now, North Carolina has produced a remarkable number of talented fiction writers in recent years. This anthology collects twenty-five short stories, all published within the past decade and a half, by some of the best of those writers.
This Is Where We Live showcases a rising generation of North Carolina authors whose work reflects the fast-changing realities of the state's landscape, culture, and people. Their roots may be southern, but their words will resonate with anyone anywhere who appreciates first-rate fiction.
A broad and...
As readers across America know by now, North Carolina has produced a remarkable number of talented fiction writers in recent years. This anthology col...
Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in lively and of ten playful fashion, with poems about sweet potatoes. popular music, spitwads, sex education, family and marriage, cafeterias, Sunday School. and a shoeshine kit. McFee's poems are lucid and vivid, ranging in length from quick lyrics to more extended poems about kissing, sneezing whistling, and making art.
Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in lively and of ten playful fashion, with p...
The Napkin Manuscripts is a collection of twenty-two engaging prose pieces written over the past several decades by Michael McFee poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. Taken together, they constitute a wide-ranging exploration of what working writers do, how they do it, and what it means. The book is divided into four parts: Section one is composed of personal essays, and is rooted in the landscape and culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where the author grew up and where he often returns for inspiration. Section two gathers essays about the literary life and writing, among...
The Napkin Manuscripts is a collection of twenty-two engaging prose pieces written over the past several decades by Michael McFee poet, essayist, edit...
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.-
In We Were Once Here, Michael McFee continues to write inventive appreciations of often-overlooked subjects, particularly the people and language of h...
