{"id":11621,"date":"2014-01-27T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/?page_id=11621"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:32:56","slug":"poems-in-phases-of-composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/poems-in-phases-of-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems-in-Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>The following poems, discussed in the correspondence between Hall and McNair, were also part of a project to present McNair\u2019s new and selected poems from his book <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/teachpoetry\/loverslostselections\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Lovers of the Lost<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Images of these poems in various draft phases from his writing notebooks, transcriptions of the drafts, and the published poems were digitized and assembled online to illustrate McNair\u2019s creative process and to highlight how important revision is to McNair as he writes, draft by draft, down into a poem. A typical poem may take several pages to complete. To see an explanation of the notebook drafts, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/teachpoetry\/wordfromwes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the poems below to view scans and transcriptions of the poems in various phases of composition, to complement the conversations about the poems between Hall and McNair:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/hairontv-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hair on Television<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/retbaseball-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Retarded Children Play Baseball<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wavgoodbye-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Waving Goodbye<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/whereilive-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Where I Live<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/minabell-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mina Bell&#8217;s Cows<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/beforepeople-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Before People<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/mute-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mute<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/shortytowers-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/what-it-is-tcluster\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What It Is<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/travadvisory-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Traveler&#8217;s Advisory<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-11621\" data-postid=\"11621\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-11621 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following poems, discussed in the correspondence between Hall and McNair, were also part of a project to present McNair\u2019s new and selected poems from his book The Lovers of the Lost. 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