{"product_id":"thing-music-anthony-mccann-9781933517964","title":"Thing Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world--a world which is very particularly his, and also our own, re-sung. For some time now I have believed McCann to be one of the finest poets writing today.\"--Maggie Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McCann demonstrates that the truth surrounds us all; our best way of connecting with it is through compassion and love. With equal parts exuberance and dread, the speaker encourages us to 'waste the whole day feeling these things.'\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThing Music\u003c\/i\u003e is full of flesh, of creatures tangled in their worlds. Marked variously by the desert and coastal landscapes of Southern California and the intersections of phenomenology and anarchism, these poems are porous bodies, traversed by light and noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Mouth Guitar\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow the pulsing afternoon\u003cbr\u003etakes each belly in its hands\u003cbr\u003elifts it up towards some glass\u003cbr\u003eand all that's inside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhile he crawled on\u003cbr\u003ewith his body\u003cbr\u003etowards vengeance\u003cbr\u003eor the state\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony McCann\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony McCann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933517964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933517964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/29\/2014","brand":"Anthony McCann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052959527167,"sku":"9781933517964","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d95e98b-5dd3-493d-a022-3ac47a9285ac.jpg?v=1685021598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thing-music-anthony-mccann-9781933517964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}