I highly recommend this vivid, accessible collection, where poems are sometimes just two lines long (but the are THE PERFECT two lines), and ordinary things are "bright as raspberries". As a fellow audience member at a McDougall reading said, McDougall's poems emobody "the soul of brevity". And I would put the emphasis on the "soul". ( )

"McDougall gives voice to the ineffable emotions of plain people. And in the undiluted glare of the genuine, the land and its people are redeemed, if not wholly forgiven." -- The Georgia Review