Poetry. In his third collection of poetry, Anthony McCann fuses the worlds of dream, art, love, and brute humanity, taking the redemptive power of the romantic to new and surprising extremes. "I don't have a body to feel afraid," writes McCann, and these poems, bald and imaginative, almost convince the reader it must be so, save for the fact that they are so vitally, essentially human.
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
Jeremy Schmall @ The Best American Poetry blog
Publishers Weekly
Nick Sturm @ H_NGM_N
Matt Hart @ Coldfront
Luisa Muradyan @ Front Porch Journal