{"id":9534,"date":"2021-05-31T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:18:31","slug":"last-call-bar-poems-volume-3-by-randall-mcnair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=9534","title":{"rendered":"Last Call: Bar Poems Volume 3 by Randall McNair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A bold, memorable, and capacious collection…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his gorgeously visceral third volume in Bar Poems, the award-winning McNair explores love, life, death, hope, and self-loathing. \u201cGrateful, Dead\u201d examines the inevitable nature of death whereas \u201cRoaches\u201d and \u201cThis Will Not Go Over Well\u201d explore an alcoholic\u2019s downward spiral into self-destruction. There is chaotic beauty throughout, particularly in McNair\u2019s physical descriptions of how the human consciousness becomes oblivious to its surroundings while under influence. The effect is quietly exhilarating. Some of the poems in the collection are more overtly personal as McNair reflects on his home life. By turn mournful and uplifting, the poems bring out each image, character, question, paradox, and philosophical musings about life, love, and death fully alive. Despair and hope intertwine often, and McNair displays both insight and deep understanding of the human psyche (\u201cHey, Stupid,\u201d What Is Life But Sidetracking\u201d). Deep and touching, the collection will make readers want to visit McNair\u2019s other work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Call<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bar Poems Volume 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Randall McNair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bits of Steak Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date July 4, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781735108094<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author\u2019s Twitter @McNairPoet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bold, memorable, and capacious collection… In his gorgeously visceral third volume in Bar Poems, the award-winning McNair explores love, life, death, hope, and self-loathing. \u201cGrateful, Dead\u201d examines the inevitable nature of death whereas \u201cRoaches\u201d and \u201cThis Will Not Go Over Well\u201d explore an alcoholic\u2019s downward spiral into self-destruction. There is chaotic beauty throughout, particularly in McNair\u2019s physical descriptions of how the human consciousness becomes oblivious to its surroundings while under influence. The effect is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":9535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[422,56739],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7215,3328,178,8053601,1136176,422,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-short-reviews","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-author","tag-indie-books","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/last-call.jpg?fit=1851%2C2700&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-2tM","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9541,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}