Tap Out e-bog

Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity.New York TimesNew & Noteworthy ';Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.'The Millions, ';Must Read Poetry' [A] gritty, insightful debut.Washington PostWinner of the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award for Poetry Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out, Edgar Kunz's debut collection, reckons with his workingpoor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of bluecollar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is conveyed and passed on through touch and wordsviolent, or simplyabsent. Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class mobility. Theypull the reader close, alternating fierce whispers and proud shouts about what working hands are capable of and the different ways a mind and body can leave a life they can no longer endure.This hungry new voice asks: after you makethe choice to leave,what isleft behind, what can you make of it, and at what cost?