A New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. T...

A New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. T...

"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 a...