Thomas McGrath, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $17.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-938410-62-1
michael/a lovely review!thanks/pk Written in 1947, this novel depicts a postwar American economy torn by the demands of returning veterans. McGrath, America's preeminent poet of the working class, describes in an alternately bittersweet and soaring...
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Thomas McGrath, Author, Sam Hamill, Editor Copper Canyon Press $15 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55659-011-5
One of the pleasures of a collection of selected poems of this scope is watching the progress of a good poet, decade by decade, as he both broadens his range and hones his craft. McGrath, a denizen of the small-press world whose many volumes over a...
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Thomas McGrath, Author, Sam Hamill, Editor, Dale Jacobson, Illustrator Copper Canyon Press $19 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55659-035-1
McGrath ( Selected Poems 1938-1988 ), who died last year, wrote poetry that uncovers the sublime in the common. This collection adds to his store of popular wisdom, but the beauty and power of its language transcends the limitations he found in...
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