Tap Out: Poems

by Edgar Kunz

Book Overview

Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out, 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.

Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328518124
• ISBN13: 9781328518125
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"