Appointed Rounds Essays by MichaelMcfee 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 ..."
We Were Once Here(1st Edition) by MichaelMcfee 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 MichaelMcfee 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 Smallest Talk by MichaelMcfee 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 ..."
The Napkin Manuscripts Selected Essays and an Interview, With a Foreword by Doris Betts by MichaelMcfee 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 ..."
Shinemaster(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by MichaelMcfee 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 MichaelMcfee 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."
Colander(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by MichaelMcfee, 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."
To see by Elizabeth Matheson, MichaelMcfee Unbound, Published 1991 by North Carolina Wesleyan College Press ISBN-13: 978-0-933598-35-5, ISBN: 0-933598-35-1
To See(1st Edition) by MichaelMcfee, Elizabeth Matheson Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 1991 by North Carolina Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-933598-34-8, ISBN: 0-933598-34-3
Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board(1st Edition) by MichaelMcfee 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"
Vanishing Acts(1st Edition) by MichaelMcfee, Cid Corman Paperback, 53 Pages, Published 1989 by Gnomon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-917788-38-3, ISBN: 0-917788-38-9
Plain Air(1st Edition) (Contemporary poetry series) by MichaelMcfee, Et Al. Hardcover, 65 Pages, Published 1983 by Univ Pr Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-0774-8, ISBN: 0-8130-0774-7
This Is Where We Live(1st Edition) Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers by MichaelMcfee 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 ..."
