Sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair’s latest poetry collection, “The Lost Child: Ozark Poems,” has an understory — one of grief and reconciliation with his mother.
McNair, a resident of Mercer, will share poems from the piece during a local launch of the book at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Farmington Public Library.
A stretch from his traditional New England-based poetry, the new book begins with poetry about his mother’s last days in 2012.
It moves on to a section of poems about fictional characters, ones who are somewhat based on his mother’s family in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, he said.
The last section relates his journey to the Ozarks with her ashes, where McNair and her elderly siblings scattered them at the family grave site.
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