Mapping the Heart: Reflections on Place and Poetry (Carnegie Mellon Poets in Prose) - Softcover

The recipient of grants from the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, WESLEY MCNAIR has held an NEH Fellowship in Literature, and two NEA Fellowships for Creative Writers. He has won the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry; the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest; and the 1997 Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, among other honors. The editor of The Quotable Moose: Contemporary Maine Writing, he is the author of five books of poetry, the first of which, The Faces of Americans in 1853, was selected as a Classic Contemporary by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His tow most recent volumes are Fire and Talking in the Dark (David R. Godine, Publisher). He is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Maine at Farmington and lives with his wife Diane in Mercer, Maine.