Poetry. Like moonlight, McCann's attention gives weird clarity and an alien glow to post-industrial landscapes and human interiors. These poems are startling and irreverent, but also emotional and approachable. They uncivilize us into seeing the world as both ruin and possibility: "It was danger / gave them life / but damage / makes us shine."

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.

Reviews and Other Links
Tom Dvorske @ H_NGM_N
Rebecca Guyon @ Galatea Resurrects