Moongarden

Author: Anthony McCann

McCann, an energetic performer, will read extensively (in at least 15 cities, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and New York) to promote his book.

Forceful, fractured, clear poems weave through an apocalyptic contemporary landscape: fear, irreverent humor and deep sadness.

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McCann, an energetic performer, will read extensively (in at least 15 cities, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and New York) to promote his book.

Forceful, fractured, clear poems weave through an apocalyptic contemporary landscape: fear, irreverent humor and deep sadness.

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Anthony McCann is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books include I Heart Your Fate, Moongarden, and Father of Noise. He lives in Los Angeles.

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.

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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." Anthony McCann is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books include I Heart Your Fate , Moongarden , and Father of Noise . He lives in Los Angeles.