Twelve Journeys in Maine

"Who speaks for the small towns of New England? Wes McNair, whose spare and eloquent lines —'this stitching together of memory and heart scrap'— bring houses, landscape and inhabitants sharply into focus. These are poems to treasure."

— Maxine Kumin

"He has a gorgeous ear for the rubbing together of adjacent words...But this mouth-sound is less wonderful than his cadence or rhythm, the magnificent, speech-like, jerky sound of his free verse with its unexpected and accurate pauses, its enforced New England pitches."

—Donald Hall, Harvard Review

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