{"title":"Edgar Kunz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tap-out-book-edgar-kunz-9781328518125","title":"Tap Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity.\"--New York Times New \u0026amp; Noteworthy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.\"--The Millions, \"Must Read Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] gritty, insightful debut.\" --Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproach 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 working-poor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of blue-collar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is conveyed and passed on through touch and words--violent, or simply absent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet 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. They pull 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 make the choice to leave, what is left behind, what can you make of it, and at what cost?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBlue-Collar Masculinity:\u003c\/b\u003e From wrestling matches that leave weeping wounds to the silent codes passed down between working hands, these poems map the raw and often troubling terrain of manhood.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNarrative Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e Each poem tells a story--of salvaging wrecked cars, of a house fire's aftermath, of a graduation attended by a drunken father--with the plainspoken clarity of a lyric essay.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eClass Mobility:\u003c\/b\u003e A visceral look at the guilt and identity crises that come with leaving home, grappling with the shame of having \"piano hands\" in a world of calloused knuckles.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBildungsroman in Verse:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow a young man's journey out of a New England town of dead-end jobs and family trauma, and witness the cost of choosing a different life.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522240028945,"sku":"GOR013477055","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50467422142737,"sku":"CIN1328518124G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51023032844561,"sku":"NIN9781328518125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52660334723345,"sku":"NLS9781328518125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1328518124.jpg?v=1750889860"},{"product_id":"fixer-book-edgar-kunz-9780063288591","title":"Fixer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Editors' Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out - \"a gritty, insightful debut\" (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz's second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. The virtuosic central sequence explores the untimely death of the poet's estranged father, a handyman and addict, and the brothers left to sort through the detritus of a life long lost to them. Through lyrical, darkly humorous vignettes, Kunz asks what it costs to build a home and a love that not only lasts but sustains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50110859641105,"sku":"GOR013859097","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51169079296273,"sku":"NIN9780063288591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52102669697297,"sku":"CIN0063288591G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52820023869713,"sku":"CIN0063288591VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52902183600401,"sku":"CIN0063288591LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0BN1WFQ1N.jpg?v=1750811367"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-edgar-kunz.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}