In his stunning new book The Name Museum, Nick McRae reminds us that every name is, finally, a museum, an elegy, a narrative, and that all narrative becomes translation of place—and the collective voice of place—sometimes “mythic, bloody as a psalm.” McRae’s formal control always certain, ever graceful, these poems fuse harshness, longing, loss, spirituality, and beauty with the “sweat and rapture” of the very best poetry.
— Claudia Emerson, author of Secure the Shadow