Punch. - Couverture souple

McManus, Ray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 193823507X ISBN 13 : 9781938235078

Editeur : Hub City Press, 2014

Synopsis

Ray McManus's third book of poetry, Punch., is a call for the claw-hammer, a hymn to the steel toe, and a series of lonely missives from truck cabs and office cubicles. Punch. is a book about work, about the will that rises and the dust that falls. It is about being "lost, hungry, and hopeless, creeping toward the pipelines in a '78 Buick Regal with Big Star on the radio." Sometimes angry, sometimes darkly funny, these lean and muscular poems explore the world of punching in and punching out, the punch-drunk and the sucker-punched. Whether the poems are tightened by the rhythm of a hard hand, or the lines sprawl across the page with swagger, there is real music here. Brute voices, contemplative and haunting, speak to us with unwavering self-conflict and salty confidence. In these poems, life is a struggle and the end is already written, but there's something deeply moving about the resilience and resistance of these voices: "Lunch won't be here / for another hour," one says, "so when the rain / comes, it is welcome."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hub City Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 193823507X
• ISBN 13: 9781938235078
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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