I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me by McCann, Anthony

I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781950268887)

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I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me by McCann, Anthony

I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me

$16.00
I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me by McCann, Anthony

I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following the poet's recent prose work on the historical and ecological conflicts of the American West, these poems are necrosocial biomes where the living play dead and the dead bite back. Here we find that the past is "a perfect copy of the land./ But with all the panic of the meat." By situating himself among lyric poets such as Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, and Amiri Baraka, Anthony McCann reveals how poetry can be both an unnerving and enlivening sort of devotion. "I want life/but for the living" he writes. By turns playful, mournful, and darkly humorous, these are works which ultimately leave us emboldened in their wake.


Author: Anthony McCann
ISBN-10: 1950268888
ISBN-13: 9781950268887
Publisher: Wave Books
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
By Anthony McCann
By Anthony McCann
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Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. He is the "Poet Laureate" of Machine Project and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts.

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