Lean Days
April 1, 2004 | ISBN 978-0-919897-94-6 | 88 Pages | OUT OF PRINT
**Out of Print** Steve McOrmond captures what it's like to love and leave your hometown in Lean Days, his debut collection of poetry. From remembering " Saturday night,/ half-tons cruise / Granville Street Alice gives them the finger/ and you both think you'll die" to receiving a letter from the friend who stayed home, McOrmond's finely crafted poems awake the longing that everyone feels for the town that will never be home again. But the poet doesn't stop there. Having left his home he encounters a different sort of love where "it took a tall drunk guy in a blue… Read more