Non-fiction Deep Cuts Newsletter
July 2025
In the 800 Dewey Section: Literature
Letters from Maine : new poems
by May Sarton

The late poet's monument to a brief but passionate love affair, a collection of poems draws on the harsh beauty of nature during a Maine winter to reflect on the memory of love and the flowering it brings.
The ghosts of you and me : poems
by Wesley McNair

Wesley McNair offers a full vision of human life, both its hardships and its rich possibilities. Opening with poems about growing up with family conflict in a New England of broken farms and towns, McNair explores the limits of personal wishes and American dreams. Here too are haunting encounters with ghost selves, the dead, and the gangsters in old movies; the poignant hopefulness of comb-overs; and a transcendent series of lyrics that celebrate self-acceptance and the spiritual dimension of “life on the ground.”
On writing : a memoir of the craft
by Stephen King

The author of The Stand, The Shining, and other great books shares his insights into the craft of writing, offering a breezy, humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer. 500,000 first printing.
Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
by Helen Vendler

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. 
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