Wesley McNair is an American Poet who fits the mould of a poet who supports his avocation by earning a living as an academic. Unlike so many others he has retained his contact with the agrarian roots that spawned him. The Town of No & My Brother Running is set in his native Maine and his subject matter reflects that bucolic background. This is not to say that his poems lack wit or sophistication; but that they are evocative of country living. In large part I appreciate these poems because they evoke my own childhood memories of growing up in rural Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
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