{"id":263,"date":"2011-05-19T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:20:33","slug":"loverslostselections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/teachpoetry\/loverslostselections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovers of the Lost Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The titles below\u00a0are arranged next to their original work.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of the selections are called Teaching Clusters<\/strong> (indicated by the letters (TC)<\/strong> after the title).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching clusters contain images with transcripts, published versions, and audio recordings of McNair reading the poem aloud.<\/p>\n

The remaining selections are called Listening Clusters<\/strong> and have audio recordings only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Small Towns Are Passing<\/a>
\nMina Bell’s Cows<\/a> (TC)
\n<\/strong>The Bald Spot<\/a>\u00a0(TC)
\n<\/strong>Hair on Television<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Thugs of Old Comics<\/a>
\nThe Faces of Americans in 1853<\/a>
\nWhere I Live<\/a> (TC)<\/strong><\/td>\n		\"\"
\nThe Faces of Americans in 1853
\n<\/em><\/strong>(University of Missouri Press, 1983)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nMute<\/a>\u00a0(TC)<\/strong>
\nKilling the Animals<\/a>
\nGhosts<\/a>
\nThe Man With the Radios<\/a>
\nThe Faith Healer<\/a>
\nThe Before People<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nA Traveler\u2019s Advisory<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nWhat It Is<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nHearing That\u00a0My Father Died in a Supermarket (pending)
\nAfter My Stepfather\u2019s Death<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Abandonment<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nWhen Paul Flew Away<\/a>
\nHappiness<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/em><\/strong>The Town of No
\n<\/em><\/strong>(David R Godine, 1989)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Young Man Going Uphill With a Bird<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Secret<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Life<\/a>
\nSeeing Mercer, Maine<\/a>
\nMaking Things Clean<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe One Who Will Save You<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nReading Poems at the Grange Meeting
\nin What Must Be Heaven<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"My Brother Running: Poems
\n<\/em><\/strong>(David R Godine, 1993)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This Love Song<\/a>
\nOld Guys<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nOld Cadillacs<\/a>
\nThe Puppy<\/a>
\nTrying to Find Her Teeth<\/a>
\nThe Book of A<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nWeeds<\/a>
\nWaving Goodbye<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nGlass Night<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Characters of Dirty Jokes<\/a>
\nPoem for My Feet<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Retarded Children Play Baseball<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nWhy We Need Poetry<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nLove Handles<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Talking in the Dark: Poe<\/em><\/strong>ms
\n<\/em><\/strong>(David R Godine, 1998)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How I Became a Poet<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Good-Boy Suit<\/a>
\nShovels<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe One I Think of Now<\/a>
\nSleep<\/a>
\nVoiceless<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nSpeech<\/a>
\nAn Executive\u2019s Afterlife<\/a>
\nSmoking<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nHistory of Talking on the Phone<\/a>
\nWhat Became<\/a>
\nThe Rules of the New Car<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nGoodbye to the Old Life<\/a>
\nCharles by Accident<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nDriving North in Winter<\/a> (TC)<\/strong><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/p>\n

Fire: Poems
\n<\/em><\/strong>(David R Godine, 2002)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

My Father Going Away<\/a>
\nThe Boy Carrying the Flag<\/a>
\nKuhre\u2019s Farm<\/a>
\nIt<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nHymn to the Comb-Over<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Gangsters of Old Movies (pending)
\nThe 1950s<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nThe Last Black and White TV<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nIf You Had Come<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nAs Long As We Remember Him He Will Never Die<\/a>
\nMistakes About Heaven<\/a>
\nMy Mother Enters Heaven<\/a>
\nThe Man He Turned Into<\/a>
\nThat Nothing<\/a>
\nAs I Am<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nMy Town<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nLove Poem<\/a> (TC)<\/strong><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/p>\n

The Ghosts of You & Me: Poems<\/em><\/strong>
\n(David R Godine, 2006)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

For My Wife<\/a>
\nNovember 22, 1963<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nWhat She Means<\/a>
\nLosing My Hair<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nShame<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nMorning in America<\/a>
\nThe Lover<\/a>
\nHer Secret (pending)
\nFirst Snowfall<\/a> (TC)<\/strong>
\nLove Story <\/a>(TC)<\/strong><\/td>\n		\"\"\u00a0<\/strong>Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems
\n<\/strong>(David R Godine, 2009)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n
\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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