Scale

NATHAN MCCLAIN is a recipient of scholarships from The Frost Place and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Sou'wester, Iron Horse Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Waxwing and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

The Fortress of Solitude • I. • “Fire Destroys Beloved Chicago Bakery” • Landscape in Red by David Siqueiros • Nighthawks by Edward Hopper • Penelope, Birdwatching • “Love don't Live Here Anymore” • Based on a True Story • Power Outage Elegy • After Word of My Uncle's Illness • Gluttony • The Book of Acts • The Gap • Hide and Seek • On Taking Alba Back to the Pond • Ukulele • II. • The Short Age • At the End • Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi • Love Elegy with Busboy • Lines Written in the Margins of the Notebook Found Outside My Car This Morning • Watching the Horticulturalist • Through My Kitchen Window • Landscape with Goats by Felix Meseck • III. • Je vous attends by Yves Tanguy • Houdini • Altar Call • Love Elegy outside Eden • Love Elegy with Imaginary Fire • On the City Bus • Odysseus, Delayed • Love Elegy with Tea House • Scale • Late-hour Poem, with My Daughter a Town Away • Used Camaro • To Have Light • Consolation • The Sculpture • Manantiales • “A Guided Tour of the Kykuit Sculpture Garden”

These poems dig deeply into the past and show us what is unearthed, and the effect these discoveries have