Ghosts of You and Me

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 transcendent series of lyrics that celebrate self-acceptance and the spiritual dimension of "life on the ground."