Author Description

"Shane Neilson has written a suite of poems and a short story about the final imagined days of the famous poet, soldier, and doctor John McCrae. Neilson has written lyrically about the arc of disillusionment and eventual death of McCrae, striving to make McCrae's little-known life more broadly represented than the reductive image of a poppy. The writing hopes to serve his heroism and service, and also hopes to complement the moving photographs included by the designer."--publisher.