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Book Synopsis"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 "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.'"--Boston Review Thing Music 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. From "Mouth Guitar": Now the pulsing afternoon takes each belly in its hands lifts it up towards some glass and all that's inside While he crawled on with his body towards vengeance or the state Anthony McCann 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.
Table of ContentsContents Thing Music The Day Mouth Guitar Thing Music Speaker Landscape for Brian Evenson Let the Right One In Death Valley for Noelle The Nouns Credo (Wind) The City The Shapes The Shapes Fetishism Pleasure House Like the Dirt (5 Ceremonies) Mouth Guitar Prodigals Mouth Guitar This Living Hand The Selected Susurrations The Day (Paper Boat) Poem Amtrak on Hudson Vow Little Bodies Bank Holiday The Selected Here they hunt the picturesque like beagles On the night I was taken I am melting for the fire What a horrid climate I am greedy of you Loose a favorite bird It would have pained me to have seen my own head
