Publisher Description

Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in lively and of ten playful fashion, with poems about sweet potatoes. popular music, spitwads, sex education, family and marriage, cafeterias, Sunday School. and a shoeshine kit. McFee's poems are lucid and vivid, ranging in length from quick lyrics to more extended poems about kissing, sneezing whistling, and making art.

Author Biography

MICHAEL MCFEE's previous book, Earthly (2001), was co-winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society and was an honorable mention for the Poet's Prize. His other collections of poems are Colander, To See (a collaboration with photographer Elizabeth Matheson), Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board, Vanishing Acts, and Plain Air. He has edited a fiction anthology, This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, and a poetry anthology, The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Plenty Riffs Solo Spitwads Belching The Culvert Visible Boy Vineswinging Mrs. Rembrandt The Nudists Skin Kissing Valentine's Afternoon Time Enough Rings of Fire Over The Wedding Band The Tape Sneezing Partners The Tree Man "Service Is Our Business" Cafeterias The Tub Meteor Shower Spitting Rosin Bag Spigot with Imaginary Animals The Lessons "Helen, Come Forth!" Roof Ball Curtains Whistling Icewater in a Tumbler Old Pillow Shinemaster Surely

Long Description

Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in lively and often playful fashion, with poems about sweet potatoes, popular music, spitwads, sex education, family and marriage, cafeterias, Sunday School, and a shoeshine kit. McFee's poems are lucid and vivid, ranging in length from quick lyrics to more extended poems about kissing, sneezing, whistling, and making art.

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