Compositions on Compassion and Other Emotions

Deeply personal while completely universal, celebrated poet, essayist, and artist Bob McNeil explores the importance of love and hope in healing from the pandemic and society's endemic violence.

But perhaps most of all, Compositions on Compassion and Other Emotions explores our collective mortality. McNeil's latest collection was conceived when bedridden with a collapsed lung endangering his heart. Faced with the prospect of imminent death, "I culled some of my writing and illustrations in m...