David R. Godine, Publisher
Hardcover
Pages: 86
Size: 5.75" x 8.50"
Published: August 1989
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In The Town of No, McNair blends sadness and comedy to remind us of Robert Frost's notion that poetry should make us "very sorry" or "very glad."

Critical Praise

"Profound and riveting . . . without a doubt, one of the year's best poetry collections. Full of poems that are simple and direct in technique, yet profound and riveting in impact. This is one of the year's best collections of poetry."
—Booklist (starred review)

“These are excellent poems, lucid poems, haunting poems.”
—Missouri Review

"Wesley McNair has created one of the most memorable mythical places of the decade."
—New Letters Review of Books