A Long Time to Be Gone

Poems that discover enduring pleasures in the details of our everyday lives.

Michael McFee's twelfth collection of poetry explores challenging subjects--the realities of aging, the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the disappearance of Appalachian culture--in poems that discover enduring pleasures in the details of our everyday lives. It also includes vivid, lively, and imaginative responses to quirky words, a jazz standard, family members, celebrities, and several paintings. As one reader has said, "In his poems filled with quotidian experience, the objects of the material world shimmer with consequence: they are alight with attention--McFee's, and through his art, ours. He is one of our best poets."


Author: Michael McFee
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 12/20/2022
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780887486869
ISBN10: 088748686X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
A native of Asheville, North Carolina, and resident of Durham, Michael McFee is the Doris Betts Term Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program. He is the author or editor of sixteen previous books, most recently We Were Once Here and Appointed Rounds: Essays.