Lovers of the Lost Poems – Wesley McNair

The titles below are arranged next to their original work.

Many of the selections are called Teaching Clusters (indicated by the letters (TC) after the title).

Teaching clusters contain images with transcripts, published versions, and audio recordings of McNair reading the poem aloud.

The remaining selections are called Listening Clusters and have audio recordings only.

Small Towns Are Passing Mina Bell’s Cows (TC) The Bald Spot (TC) Hair on Television (TC) The Thugs of Old Comics The Faces of Americans in 1853 Where I Live (TC)	*The Faces of Americans in 1853* (University of Missouri Press, 1983)
The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows (TC) Mute (TC) Killing the Animals Ghosts The Man With the Radios The Faith Healer The Before People (TC) A Traveler’s Advisory (TC) What It Is (TC) Hearing That My Father Died in a Supermarket (pending) After My Stepfather’s Death (TC) The Abandonment (TC) When Paul Flew Away Happiness	*The Town of No* (David R Godine, 1989)
Young Man Going Uphill With a Bird (TC) The Secret (TC) The Life Seeing Mercer, Maine Making Things Clean (TC) The One Who Will Save You (TC) Reading Poems at the Grange Meeting in What Must Be Heaven	*My Brother Running: Poems* (David R Godine, 1993)
This Love Song Old Guys (TC) Old Cadillacs The Puppy Trying to Find Her Teeth The Book of A (TC) Weeds Waving Goodbye (TC) Glass Night (TC) The Characters of Dirty Jokes Poem for My Feet (TC) The Retarded Children Play Baseball (TC) Why We Need Poetry (TC) Love Handles	*Talking in the Dark: Poe*ms (David R Godine, 1998)
How I Became a Poet (TC) The Good-Boy Suit Shovels (TC) The One I Think of Now Sleep Voiceless (TC) Speech An Executive’s Afterlife Smoking (TC) History of Talking on the Phone What Became The Rules of the New Car (TC) Goodbye to the Old Life Charles by Accident (TC) Driving North in Winter (TC)	*Fire: Poems* (David R Godine, 2002)
My Father Going Away The Boy Carrying the Flag Kuhre’s Farm It (TC) Hymn to the Comb-Over (TC) The Gangsters of Old Movies (pending) The 1950s (TC) The Last Black and White TV (TC) If You Had Come (TC) As Long As We Remember Him He Will Never Die Mistakes About Heaven My Mother Enters Heaven The Man He Turned Into That Nothing As I Am (TC) My Town (TC) Love Poem (TC)	*The Ghosts of You & Me: Poems* (David R Godine, 2006)
For My Wife November 22, 1963 (TC) What She Means Losing My Hair (TC) Shame (TC) Morning in America The Lover Her Secret (pending) First Snowfall (TC) Love Story (TC)	Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems (David R Godine, 2009)

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[…] This week we highlight an interactive site that focuses on poems from Wes’s Lovers of the Lost collection. We have posted scans of notebook pages representing poems at different stages as well as audio files and transcribed poem texts. Check out the teaching and listening clusters at Lovers of the Lost Poems – Wesley McNair (colby.edu)! […]