Home Burial
Michael McGriff
Home Burial
Michael McGriff
A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor.–Third Coast
There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place–not as mere setting, but as a distinct element of his verse.–Gently Read Literature
Michael McGriff’s second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and illustrates life in a rural community in the Pacific Northwest. Whether tender or hard-hitting, McGriff juxtaposes natural images of deep forests, creeks, coyotes, and crows against the harsher oil-grease realities of blue-collar life, creating poems that read like folk tales about the people working in grain mills, forests, and factories.
New Civilian
The new law says you can abandon your child in an emergency room,
no questions asked. The young father carries the sleeping boy through the hospital doors. Later, alone, parked at the boat basin,
he takes a knife from his pocket,
cuts an unfiltered cigarette in two,
lights the longer half in his mouth. He was a medic in the war. In his basement are five bronze eagles that once adorned the walls of a dictator’s palace.
Michael McGriff attended the University of Oregon; the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in creative writing; and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow. He is the co-founding editor and publisher of Tavern Books and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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