Poetry of the Great Plains – Letter to an Imaginary Friend

  Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) wrote his epic long poem Letter to an Imaginary Friend between 1957 and 1985.  Simply put, it is brilliant.  It has no match in American literature except for maybe Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, although it is much lesser known than Leaves.  McGrath is from North Dakota, and the poem […]