After the Hunt

“There’s a rugged elegance to Devin McGuire’s poetry—a voice that seeks out the pain and plain truth that hides below our everyday courtesy and finds behind it authentic beauty. You will see it too, trust me, in the way a young boy has to work hard and get bloody to kill a fish he’s caught or the way “this smoking wreck of man” has to work even harder to find a way through the trauma, damage, heartbreak and wreckage of everyday life, to find his way to that one sterling moment where “wet yellow leaves make beautiful/ litter on the ground.” After the Hunt is a potent testament to a mind alive and real.”

 – Jeffrey Thomson, Author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime (Carnegie Mellon 2009) and Renovation (Carnegie Mellon 2005).