These blurbs from my newest book will give you an idea of my background. I'm influenced by everything.
“I’m learning to keep some knowledge from myself,” Jim McGarrah writes in a poem aptly titled “The Pursuit of Knowledge,” and such gnarly wisdom infuses these poems that recognize not only the “suffering that idles in us all,” but that “What connects us is our loneliness.” As Vietnam continues to provide context for a life given over now to the privacies of love, jazz, and humor, McGarrah sear more...
