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Jim Metcalf

This anthology collects four complete volumes of poetry from the beloved New Orleans poet, journalist, and anchorman.

Like Robert Frost before him, Jim Metcalf’s poetic commentaries on everyday objects and events offer a keen insight into our world and our own humanity. This volume includes four rare and out-of-print collections of Metcalf’s poetry: Follow Another Star, Please to Begin, In Some Quiet Place, and Jim Metcalf's Journal. With a foreword by his longtime friend and colleague Phil Johnson, this anthology serves as a brilliant reminder of the poet and his work.

Jim Metcalf

At the time of his death in 1977, Jim Metcalf was widely acclaimed as one of the brightest new stars in the poetry world. He was also the writer, producer, and host of the top-rated New Orleans television program, A Sunday Journal. His work earned him many accolades, including the distinguished Peabody Award for broadcasting. In 1998, Metcalf was posthumously inducted into the New Orleans Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Follow Another Star , along with Metcalf's other volumes of poetry, Jim Metcalf's Journal , In Some Quiet Place, and Please to Begin, are compiled in Jim Metcalf: Collected Poems, also published by Pelican.

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