Robert McNamara’s first book of poetry, Second Messengers, was published by Wesleyan University Press, and he has published poems in the anthologies 15 Seattle Book and New Voices, as well as journals such as Agni, The Antioch Review, Field, The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, The Ohio Review, and Poetry Northwest. Three of his poems in a series called “Skeptical Psalms” were set to music by the composer Christopher Shainin and performed in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. The Cat on the Stairs, a collection of his translations of Bengali poet Sarat Mukhopadhyay, is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press.
In Memorious:
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