Down East Books 
Softcover
Pages: 344
Size: 5.5” x 8.5”
Published: September 2022
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This anthology brings together the first two Take Heart collections into a single paperback volume. These are poems about longing and pleasure and death and love, poems about natural world, poems that will inspire tears and laughter and help you carry on—poems from the heart, all penned by Maine writers.

During Wesley McNair’s tenure as Maine Poet Laureate his popular column "Take Heart" ran weekly in thirty newspapers across the state and reached more than a quarter of a million readers.