{"product_id":"punch-book-ray-mcmanus-9781938235078","title":"Punch","description":"Ray McManus’s third book of poetry, Punch., is a call for the claw-hammer, a hymn to the steel toe, and a series of lonely missives from truck cabs and office cubicles. Punch. is a book about work, about the will that rises and the dust that falls. It is about being “lost, hungry, and hopeless, creeping toward the pipelines in a '78 Buick Regal with Big Star on the radio.” Sometimes angry, sometimes darkly funny, these lean and muscular poems explore the world of punching in and punching out, the punch-drunk and the sucker-punched. Whether the poems are tightened by the rhythm of a hard hand, or the lines sprawl across the page with swagger, there is real music here. Brute voices, contemplative and haunting, speak to us with unwavering self-conflict and salty confidence. In these poems, life is a struggle and the end is already written, but there's something deeply moving about the resilience and resistance of these voices: “Lunch won't be here \/ for another hour,” one says, “so when the rain \/ comes, it is welcome.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394371653905,"sku":"CIN193823507XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058341314833,"sku":"NIN9781938235078","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193823507X.jpg?v=1750771330","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/punch-book-ray-mcmanus-9781938235078","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}