Mudman: Poems

Mudman, a special honoree for the 2023 Able Muse Book Award, is the second full-length poetry collection by Jane McKinley. The poems interweave personal memory with historical and natural landscapes, moving between experiences of family, grief, and illness and broader meditations on war, ecology, and cultural inheritance. Drawing on images of music, myth, and daily life, McKinley examines how private stories intersect with collective histories, and she reflects on the persistence of memory ...