Take Heart: More Poems from Maine [Hardcover]

It is commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings, funerals, and other milestones. This Take Heart anthology--the second collection from Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair's weekly newspaper column--is chosen from the work of poets all over Maine, representing a wide cultural view of the state.Called by poet Philip Levine one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry, Wesley McNair is the author of more than twenty books, including Lovers of the Lost: New and Selected Poems and The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Poetry and Family. He has twice been invited by the Library of Congress to read his work, and has won the Robert Frost and Theodore Roethke Prizes, grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006 he was selected for a United States Artist Fellowship as one of America's finest living artists. He is Maine's Poet Laureate and lives in Mercer, Maine.This is the second anthology of verse from the weekly Take Heart column edited by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair and featured in thirty newspapers and newsletters across the state, with a combined circulation of 250,000 readers. Here are poems drawn from ordinary life by Maine poets old and new, selections that will move and inspire you, poems from the heart.