The Lost Child

Praise for Wesley McNair “One of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry.”—Philip Levine, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner “Because he is a true poet, his New England is unlimited. Whole lives fill small lines, real to this poet, therefore to us.”—Donald Hall, Harvard Book Review Dwellers in the House of the Lord: “There’s so much life in this beautiful book that it feels like a living thing. Wesley McNair is a kind of Chekhov of American poetry.”—Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate The Ghosts of Me and You: “McNair’s poems are full of people with lives like his own, like ours, ordinary lives that are incredibly unique and complex.”—Louis McKee, Library Journal The Unfastening: “A distinctly New England strain of candor and restraint and a walloping matter-of-factness.”—The Boston Globe The Town of No & My Brother Running: “McNair is one of the only handful of younger poets willing to take risks. This is, without a doubt, one of the year’s best poetry collections.”—ALA Booklist