Jim McDermott’s poems track the seasons by way of crystalline observation. Tender and spare, they find new ways to communicate, like “How a hole / in the throat / can bait / the fingers / into speech.” These poems salvage what they can from nature and, in their intimacy, their elegance, we are gifted a writer’s fully-realized philosophy of rural life.”
—Sara Nicholson, author of What the Lyric Is and The Living Method
Jim McDermott’s poems track the seasons by way of crystalline observation. Tender and spare, they find new ways to communicate, like “How a hole / in the throat / can bait / the fingers / into speech.” These poems salvage what they can from nature and, in their intimacy, their elegance, we are gifted a writer’s fully-realized philosophy of rural life.”
—Sara Nicholson, author of What the Lyric Is and The Living Method