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The Road That Carried Me Here

 
 
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    Now in its 4th printing, it was published in its first edition as part of the Working Lives Series by Bottom Dog Press, Huron, Ohio, Ray McNiece, Copyright, 1998. 109 pages. ISBN 0-933087-51-9

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 The Road That Carried Me Here

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    In this new collection Ray McNiece takes us with him on his road journey through the broken heart of America. These are poems of great joy and deep sorrow expressed with honest voice and sure, clear craft. This new book makes it clear why poetry matters to McNiece and to us all. 

    "Ray McNiece's Road that Carried Me Here is really almost a picaresque novel of an Appalachian anit-hero (himself) on the road that lead Kerouac nowhere except into himself. But McNiece has farther to go..."
- - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

   "Part of McNiece's charm is his mission to demystify poetry, having come from a hard-working blue collar family with roots in the heart-scrabble Celtic Appalachia and Slovenian Cleveland. Like James Wright's work, these poems show a narrative style, acute attention to Nature and an emotional affinity with those whose luck has run out." 
- - Amy Sparks, Free Times

    "Ray McNiece is a rare poet who fully understands the honest heart & soul of contemporary American poetry. In one poem, Ray can have his readers laughing so hard that they'll swear they just heard the best bar joke in an after work saloon in Youngstown, and in the next poem he leaves his readers pondering the past deeply while listening to their heartbeats echo through the side streets of ethnic Cleveland. Ray's the real deal." 
- - M.L. Liebler     [back to top]



Sample
(one of the shortest poems in the whole book):

Staring at a Heron

August. Hazy. Midday. 
I stand in the heron's stare, 
the heron stands in this stare.
Neither of us will move. 
Lulled to the same leisure
by the weather we share, 
here we are each other. 

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