The Essential Eugene McNamara Fiction Christopher Wiseman’s poetry moves widely

Christopher Wiseman’s poetry moves widely across time and place

Lynd Ward and Otto Nückel

those specifically Canadian virtues

and Field Day (1996)

The Essential Eugene McNamara Fiction Christopher Wiseman’s poetry moves widelyIn The Essential Eugene McNamara, poetry pushes the barriers of language and grammar, daring to convey raw emotion with disarming empathy. Eugene McNamaras poetry ponders the textures and contradictions of his adopted city: Windsor, Ontario. Most comfortable in small, non eloquent, delinquent, unpopular and wayward places, McNamaras poems display abiding empathy with the inhabitants of these locales, conveying raw emotion through deceptively simple