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A Long Time to Be Gone
Overview
Poems that discover enduring pleasures in the details of our everyday lives. 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."
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- ISBN-13: 9780887486869
- ISBN-10: 088748686X
- Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- Publish Date: December 2022
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 72
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