Poetry. OUR WAY OF LIFE, a collection of contemporary American poetry, including protest poems for peace and justice as well as Appalachian and Midwest regional poetry, is performance poet Ray McNiece's third publication. "It's not enough for an artist to be angry. He also has to be good. And Ray McNiece is good and angry in these poems that burn as hot and bright as the extinct blast furnaces of Ohio once did. Whitman, whose ghost is everywhere in these lines, called America 'the greatest poem.' And I am happy that Ray McNiece's passionate, relentless voice will not stop until he has made us understand how much we have lost" -George Bilgere.
