The Optimist : Poems

Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, The Optimist is the first book by a young poet whose work has been widely published in literary journals.

As final judge James Cummins said, "Mehigan accesses a tradition of voices - the echoes in The Optimist are, to name a few, of Frost, Robinson, Kees, and Justice; and more in terms of point of view, Bishop and Jarrell."