Life List - Paperback

by Janet Lacey McCann (Author)

Life List evokes the feel and images of growing up and growing old in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The speaker must rely on faith and her internal gyroscope to find her way through a rapidly changing world. Loss and grief sober and subdue her, but she sees the world with much the same eyes as she ages. Her poems are concrete and evocative; they will recall your experiences too.

Author Biography

Journals publishing Janet McCann's work include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou'wester, America, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, New York Quarterly, Tendril, and others. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she taught at Texas A&M University from 1969 until 2015 and is now a professor emerita. She has coedited anthologies with David Craig, Odd Angles of Heaven (1994), Place of Passage (2000), and Poems of Francis and Clare (2004). She has written three poetry books and six chapbooks. Her most recent poetry book is The Crone at the Casino (2014). She also has coauthored two textbooks and written a book on Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens: The Celestial Possible, 1996). She is a Catholic and lives in College Station, Texas, with her dog.