Works by
Richard McCann
(Writer)

• The Resurrectionist (In progress)
  Explores the experience and meanings of illness and mortality through a narrative exploration of his experience as a liver transplant recipient.

• Mother of Sorrows (2005) -- Finalist 2005 Lambda Literary Gay Men's Debut Fiction Awards
  In these ten interwoven stories, two adolescent brothers face a world in which their father has suddenly died, a world dominated by their beautiful and complicated mother. Thirty years later, one of the brothers–the only remaining survivor of a family he seeks both to leave behind and to preserve in words forever–narrates these precise and heartbreaking tales. Suffused with the beauty of Richard McCann’s extraordinary language, Mother of Sorrows introduces us to an elegant writer like no other in contemporary fiction.

• Things Shaped in Passing: More Poets for Life Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1997), Michael Klein and Richard McCann, eds.
  This important and passionate collection presents the work of forty-two American poets--including Henri Cole, Tory Dent, Tim Dlugos, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Howard, Marie Howe, Timothy Liu, Paul Monette, Carl Phillips, Reginald Shepherd, Jean Valentine, and Belle Waring--whose vision and language bear the impress of the AIDS pandemic. With its generous selections of the poets' works, as well as their brief personal remarks on the relationship of their poetry to their experiences of AIDS, Things Shaped in Passing bears witness to the extremity of our moment.

• Ghost Letters (1994) -- Finalist 1995 Lambda Literary Gay Male Poetry Awards
  Fiercely passionate and deeply elegiac, Richard McCann's Ghost Letters chronicles the intersection of grief and desire. These are poems of memory, but they are made of the body the consoling body; the wounded body; the sexual body, both loved and unloved.

See also:

• The Best American Essays 2000 (2000), Alan Lightman and Robert Atwan, eds.

• The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994), David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, eds.