Poems from Maine
Take Heart


Down East Books, 2013

“In this collection of verse, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets from his popular Take Heart column, featuring a poem each week in thirty newspapers across the state and reaching a quarter of a million readers. These are poems about longing and pleasure and death and love, poems that will inspire tears and laughter and help you to carry on – poems from the heart, all penned by the poets of Maine, whose astonishing vision this book celebrates.