Closing Up for Winter

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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