David R. Godine, Publisher
Hardcover
Pages: 80
Size: 5" x 8.25"
Published: January 1994
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In My Brother Running, fifteen short poems on rural life are counterbalanced by the long title poem, a memorial to a brother dead too soon and for reasons that can never be reconciled.

Critical Praise

“McNair accomplishes the double miracle of being both entertaining and wise.”
—Down East Magazine

"The story of the speaker and his brother takes on a degree of obsessiveness that is more urgent than anything in McNair's snapshots from rural life, and the poem is without question his best."
—David Wojahn, Poetry

"Not a word out of place, and the lines move down the page with the stark clarity and the patient nearness of a winter landscape developing outside a window . . . whatever regional cast the poems have is much less noticeable than the powerful moments of realization and description that make these poems live."
—Henry Taylor, Washington Times

" . . . the book's title poem is a masterpiece of both pacing and intensity."
—Philip Booth, Maine Sunday Telegram

"McNair's most emotionally powerful poem, and a masterpiece of the long poem and the elegy."
—Thomas R. Smith, Minneapolis Star Tribune