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LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.
List of contents
1 The Event
Post Futurism
Omoa (Time of the Grackle)
Of the Mockingbird
Field Work
The Assistant
Draga Barbara,
Putin with Lynch
Poem
Letters of Claire and Trelawny
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dear Catholic Church,
The Event
2 I ♥ Your Fate
I came out of the past, with fingers all stained
Here¿s something as thoughtful as chairs in the snow:
A man on blue shoulders drifts through white lights
Can organized body hair still be alive?
You came in from the street riding your thoughts
Music came back and made us its slave
Werther
We captured their leader and cut off his head
Deseret
I had to go back and touch the stove twice
The surface is quiet; I'm suffering joy
In this forest milieu: an encounter with void
The clouds drifted over a late human lunch
It¿s strange to be seen, I¿ve said to a tree
3 New Dreams of Mammal Island
Your Voice
Dreams of Waking
Alibi
Letter Never Sent
In the Visitors¿ Locker Room
Mammal Island
Invincibility
More Dreams of Waking
In the American Grain
About the author
Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of I Heart Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006), and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these two 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 has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles, where he works with Machine Project and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
Summary
LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.
