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Books by Michael Mcfee






We Were Once Here(1st Edition)
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2017 by Carnegie Mellon
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-620-3, ISBN: 0-88748-620-7

"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 twent ..."






That Was Oasis(1st Edition)
(Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2012 by Carnegie Mellon
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-548-0, ISBN: 0-88748-548-0

"For over three decades, Michael McFee has been, in the words of one critic, "putting together a body of work that few poets anywhere, of any age, can match for its poise, its wit and metaphorical power, its accessibility and depth of feeling." That Was Oasis, McFee's eighth full-length book of poetry, is a collection of spirited and diverse elegies. Its poems pay inventive attention to the overlooked or underappreciated, to such subject ..."






The Napkin Manuscripts
Selected Essays and an Interview, With a Foreword by Doris Betts
by Michael Mcfee
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2006 by Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-57233-540-0, ISBN: 1-57233-540-8

"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 ..."






Appointed Rounds
Essays
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Mercer University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-638-6, ISBN: 0-88146-638-7

"Michael McFee's new book takes its title from the unofficial motto of the US Postal Service: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." All of us have appointed rounds in our lives--essential things we are given to do and must try to complete, whatever the inner or outer weather, whenever the time of day or night, however we may approach those duties. Thi ..."






Colander(1st Edition)
(Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
by Michael Mcfee, William Pitt Root
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1996 by Carnegie Mellon
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-224-3, ISBN: 0-88748-224-4

"A collection of poetry by Michael McFee."






This Is Where We Live(1st Edition)
Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4895-1, ISBN: 0-8078-4895-6

"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 peopl ..."






The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat(1st Edition)
Poems By Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1994 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4483-0, ISBN: 0-8078-4483-7

"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 ..."






Shinemaster(1st Edition)
(Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2006 by Carnegie Mellon
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-446-9, ISBN: 0-88748-446-8

"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."






Earthly(1st Edition)
(Poetry Series)
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Carnegie Mellon University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-339-4, ISBN: 0-88748-339-9

"A collection of poetry by Michael McFee."






This Is Where We Live(1st Edition)
Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers
by Michael Mcfee
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2583-9, ISBN: 0-8078-2583-2

"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 peopl ..."






The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat(1st Edition)
Poems By Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets
by Michael Mcfee, Maya Angelou, Et Al., Lee Chappell
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 1994 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2172-5, ISBN: 0-8078-2172-1

"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 ..."






Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board(1st Edition)
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 1991 by Gnomon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-917788-49-9, ISBN: 0-917788-49-4

"Poems deal with childhood, memories, and the past"






Plain Air(1st Edition)
(Contemporary poetry series)
by Michael Mcfee, Et Al.
Hardcover, 65 Pages, Published 1983 by Univ Pr Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-0774-8, ISBN: 0-8130-0774-7






To See(1st Edition)
by Michael Mcfee, Elizabeth Matheson
Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 1991 by North Carolina Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-933598-34-8, ISBN: 0-933598-34-3






To see
by Elizabeth Matheson, Michael Mcfee
Unbound, Published 1991 by North Carolina Wesleyan College Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-933598-35-5, ISBN: 0-933598-35-1






The Smallest Talk
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2007 by Bull City Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4243-1797-4, ISBN: 1-4243-1797-5

"Michael McFee, in his new book, The Smallest Talk, squeezes the conventions of poetry-- image, rhythm, language and meaning-- into the smallest possible package. These monostiches, as one-line poems are often called, are extraordinary feats of wit, as much kin to prose poems as to a comedian's smartest lines. If comedians zing, then McFee zings darkly, with the verbal charge and resonance of longer poems. The Smallest Talk is an examina ..."






Vanishing Acts(1st Edition)
by Michael Mcfee, Cid Corman
Paperback, 53 Pages, Published 1989 by Gnomon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-917788-38-3, ISBN: 0-917788-38-9






The Spectator reader
A selection of columns from the Spectator magazine
by Michael Mcfee
Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 1985 by Spectator Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-9614785-1-3, ISBN: 0-9614785-1-9






A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
(Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.)
by Rose Mclarney, Laura-Gray Street, Debra Allbery, Mildred Barya, Wendell Berry, Adrian Blevins, Lee Ann Brown, Molly Mccully Brown, Nickole Brown, Kathryn Byer, Catherine Carter, Allison Hedge Coke, Allyson Comstock, Daniel Corrie, Justin Gardiner, Landon Godfrey, Jesse Graves, Douglas Van Gundy, Cathryn Hankla, Gary Hawkins, Holly Haworth, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Lisa Kwong, John Lane, Lisa Lewis, Laura Long, Maurice Manning, Jim May, Professor Davis Mccombs, Michael Mcfee, Kevin Mcilvoy, Irene Mckinney, Lucien Meadows, Sandra Meek, Deborah Miranda, Thorpe Moeckel, Rajiv Mohabir, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Robert Morgan, Shauna Morgan, Mary Oliver, Jim Peterson, Dan Powell, Melissa Range, Ron Rash, Chelsea Rathburn, Janisse Ray, Glenis Redmond, Rita Mae Reese, Billy Renkl, Henry Shearon, Rt Smith, Bianca Spriggs, Heidi Lynn Staples, Dan Stryk, Suzanne Stryk, Susan O'dell Underwood, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Gyorgyi Voros, Lesley Wheeler, L. Lamar Wilson, William Wright, L. L. Gaddy
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5624-2, ISBN: 0-8203-5624-7

"Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia―a hybrid literary and natural history anthology―showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region.Ecologically, cultura ..."






Cornbread Nation 4(1st Edition)
The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing) (Cornbread Nation Ser.)
by Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge, Terri Pischoff Wuerthner, Brett Anderson, Jim Auchmutey, Bernard Lafayette Jr, Wendell Brock, Timothy C. Davis, Lolis Elie, Amy Evans, Beth Fennelly, Marcie Ferris, William Ferris, Tom Hanchett, Jessica B. Harris, Mary Hufford, Dan Huntley, Matthew Lee, Ted Lee, Frederick Opie, Audrey Petty, Julia Reed, Robb Walsh, R.W. Apple, Deb Barshafsky, Shane K. Bernard, Rick Brooks, Shaun Chavis, Pat Conroy, Hal Crowther, Candice Dyer, Jim Ferguson, Peggy Grodinsky, Jack Hitt, Dr Fred Thompson, Cindy Lamb, Christopher Lang, Carroll Leggett, David Leite, Edna Lewis, Michael Mcfee, Jerry Leath Mills, Jim Myers, T. Edward Nickens, Carol Penn-Romine, Molly O'neill, Fred Reenstjerna, Mary Tutwiler, Judy Walker, Simone Wilson, Mr Rick Bragg, Fred W. Sauceman, Will B. Campbell, Sara Camp Milam, Southern Foodways Alliance
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3089-1, ISBN: 0-8203-3089-2

"This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to satisfy everyone from omnivorous chowhounds to the most discerning student of regional foo ..."



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