Sybil Estess

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Arts & Literature

“McCann is a religious poet, but not in a pedestrian or fundamentalist sense. From Italy to Texas, these poems deal with nostalgia. How to retrieve ‘it’—if not now, then at some future point. How to please get it back. From a deceased husband’s memory to fleeing from the pandemic. From a crummy bar in Florence or a lost painting, we must go on, and we do.”