{"product_id":"9780887486203","title":"We Were Once Here","description":"In We Were Once Here, Michael McFee continues to write inventive appreciations of often-overlooked subjects, particularly the people and language of his native Appalachia. This new collection contains thoughtful and playful celebrations of such things as snoring, a wall telephone from the 1960s, yardsticks, the Sunday newspaper, and Fats Waller. It also extends the poet’s characteristic lyric keenness into longer work, including a twenty-one-part centerpiece elegy for his niece. The book concludes with, and is framed by, poems that explore the bittersweet enduring joys of “here.”","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032745197808,"sku":"9780887486203","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780887486203_p0.jpg?v=1763842095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780887486203","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}