Poetry. Anthony McCann seeks out the elusive Other with all the raucous self-loathing of a mad saint. Eroticized, debunked, adored, and despised, the sayer of these incantations ventures with appropriate fearfulness, into the known, buoyed only by the persistence of the body in its current manifestation. His penetrating, pervasive doubt lends a perverse clarity to the journey, and lends shape to the spirit of the world. "I approach the house in tiger pants / thinking of surrender and of holding on."

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

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 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 teaches poetry at CalArts. He is also the ceremonial and acting poet laureate of Machine Project, an art-performance-gallery-instructional space in the Echo Park section of LA.

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