Apparatus

Theres a place / between desire and memory, some back porch / we can neither wish for nor recall, writes Don McKay in Apparatus. The poems in this collection home in on that place those keenly desired places where language will not reach. Apparatus is Don McKays first collection of new poems since his 1991 award-winning Night Field. It is a passionate engagement with nature and a powerful critique of human assaults on wilderness which, for McKay, is more than unsubdued nature; it is whatever eludes the minds categories the insoluble secret of life itself. To read McKays poems is to be in touch with the significant concerns of our time and all time. McKay is a poet of unmatched linguistic playfulness, with virtuoso flexibility of voice and an ability to shape-shift through forms, tones, and styles.