In this collection of verse, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets from his popular Take Heart column, featuring a poem each week in thirty newspapers across the state and reaching a quarter of a million readers. These are poems about longing and pleasure and death and love, poems that will inspire tears and laughter and help you to carry on - poems from the heart, all penned by the poets of Maine, whose astonishing vision this book celebrates. Book jacket.