The words that Mr. McFee puts with those beautiful photos brought tears to my eyes. This is his best work since Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board. Mr. McFee is a gifted poet.

Please buy my dad's book so that I can go to college

In Earthly Michael McFee bypasses any of his previous work. Each poem will touch the reader in some small way and give you insite into the author. I thorougly enjoyed reading this collection of poems and eagerly anticipate the next.

This anthology could have included a lot more than fifteen poets: North Carolina is for some reason full of remarkable writers, many poets among them. But by limiting the number of authors represented, Michael McFee is able to offer us a significant profile of each. Would that more anthologists took this approach! And this is a pretty varied crowd. There's A.R. Ammons, two-time winner of the National Book Award, and Maya Angelou, known to practically everyone after her appearance at the 1992 Presidential Inauguration--and then there's little-known Jonathan Williams, whose whimsical, often outrageous poems have usually been published by small presses. There's Robert Morgan, who writes of Appalachian life, and James Applewhite, who writes about the tobacco country down east. Some of these writers, such as Angelou, James Seay, and Betty Adcock, grew up in other parts of the South, and virtually all of them have traveled widely; despite its subtitle, this collection is anything but provincial. It's a must-have for those interested in North Carolina writing, but anyone who appreciates good poetry will enjoy this book.

His first book shows all of the promise of the wonderful poems to come. I especially enjoyed the poem Twice in the Same Place - it reminded me of my own childhood.