{"product_id":"tap-out-poems-paperback","title":"Tap Out: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdgar Kunz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApproach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. \u003cem\u003eTap Out\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Kunz has received fellowships and awards from the NEA, the Academy of American Poets, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, and his poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, AGNI, New England Review, Narrative, Gulf Coast, \u003c\/i\u003eand twice in the \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760959881504,"sku":"9781328518125","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/18618b3aecb60318aa4923649abb4afa.webp?v=1780195302","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tap-out-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}