Jack Pine Scraggly

by McCormick, John T.

This manuscript is a collection of poetry written over the past two years. It is in three sections, which, respectively, concentrate on relationship poems ranging from home to the romantic; conceptual poems which are more experimental and driven by ideas and notions of language; and the final section which is very naturalistic and reflects on interactions with place. Throughout the sections, the poems are concerned with maintaining a humble and self-aware speaker who is able to use images that are unexpected, creating a space for the reader to have a quick emotional response while remaining evasive on an intellectual level.