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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Wesley McNair, Big Cars,& the Hudson Hornet Hollywood


                                       needless to say, not Maine & not February.
It's dead of winter in Maine. The light is coming back, but it has a long way to go. One of the great things about Maine is the state is surrounded by Canada. Another great thing is our poet laureate, Wesley McNair, who has written a wonderful, brokenhearted poem called Big Cars
Ten years later,
they arrive on the thruway,
pulling winged fenders and smiling
a lane wide--big cars,
old floats that took a wrong
corner somewhere and lost
the American dream parade...
Hudson Hollywood Colo Springs 10/12

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