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Tap Out by Edgar Kunz"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue collar masculinity."New York Times New & Noteworthy Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.The Millions, Must Read Poetry"[A] gritty, insightful debut." Washington PostWinner of the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award for PoetryApproach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out, Edgar Kunzs debut collection, reckons with his

miscarriage

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics’ Circle Award

"Split crosses borders

freeing us to imagine and slice or “likewise lurch / and stutter”—marvelously so: “tenderly / a finger set / to music

/ just watch me / catch this rubber bullet between my teeth

and consumerism to a mid-life urge to shed these constraints

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado bends poems through bilingual lyrics that present spartan observation as evidence for its exacting verdict

Liang details both suppression and acceptance through the lens of a speaker born to immigrant parents in a deft collection that refuses to separate identities into boxes

In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend

Ecuadorian decimas

the better to do otherwise

the story of a marriage

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