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"Want to feel more alive? If yes, then we recommend you grab your copy of ""Dispatches from the Swinging Door Saloon"" today! Even if you're on the fence about poetry, having grown to dislike it in school, Randall McNair will bring you over to his side of the fence, the one where the absurd lives. In this debut collection of poems, McNair paints a humorous and vivid picture of what it was like to be a burnout in a world full of over achievers. Although at times raw and explicit, McNair's poetry allows us inside the mind of a very creative but sad soul, one who's stuck in a career he hates and who, through the words of a hopeless drunk, shows us how that feels. As Clive Matson writes about the book, ""Poem after poem lays out a precious gift - the gift of a person."" So, if you'd like to feel more alive, to laugh, to cry, to feel the simple joy of a man and his beer, give yourself the gift of a person, this poet Randall McNair and his book, ""Dispatches from the Swinging Door Saloon."" You'll be glad you did!"

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The poet Randall McNair invites us to have fun. To take life as it comes, to have a beer with a friend, to enjoy the plain words of our natural speech, to laugh. The writing is so clear and so easy to understand you wonder if it's really poetry. Little by little you realize it is. Poetry in its elemental state, written to be understood - with splashes of humor along the way. Try writing this clearly and after blood has dripped down your brow into your eyes, you'll discover this may be the highest art. Poem after poem lays out a precious gift - the gift of a person. And we're invited into the simple house where he lives. We're not ushered around back with the servants, or made to trudge through a tangled meadow of self-reflection, or to stand in a long line with a forty-thousand dollar check timed over four years to buy an MFA. We're brought to the front entrance with the welcome mat at our feet and the door wide open. sometimes a wet dog just wants to be a wet dog, without being reminded that he is a wet dog. To enjoy these poems you don't have to be in a bar, either, lifting a pint. But it might help. Look to your left, over death's shoulder, and you'll see the ghost of McNair's mentor, Charles Bukowski, chuckling over his fifty-thousandth beer. Clive Matson, Poet, author of Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye and Let the Crazy Child Write! The perfect setting to read this book is where it was written - in a dimly lit neighborhood pub with lots of character and characters. The delightfully twisted inner recesses of Randall McNair's brain will nourish your soul and senses while tickling your funny bone. Glenn Stickley, Producer, Emmy Award winner for The Amazing Race Get yourself a stiff drink and take a wry romp through the immeasurable pleasures and pains of first-time published, long-time poet, Randall McNair. You'll be mighty glad you did. Michael Lucker, Screenwriter, Lecturer of Film Studies, author of Crash! Boom! Bang! How to Write Action Movies

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Randall McNair, self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of the Absurd, spent the better part of a decade drinking himself silly at the Swinging Door Saloon in Tustin, California. While there, he was inspired to put pen to paper by a combination of Charles Bukowski, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds & the muse at large. His Poetry CV includes a BA in English (Creative Writing) from CSU Long Beach in 2002, the 2002 Key West Literary Seminar's Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sharon Olds, the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar's Advanced Poetry Workshop with Billy Collins and the 2019 Southampton Writers Conference 10-day Advanced Poetry Workshop also with Billy Collins. McNair's work has been published in both American and Canadian literary journals. He lives in Alameda, California, with his wife and young son.

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