Edgar Kunz is de auteur van de poëziebundel Tap Out. Zijn werk, erkend met beurzen en prijzen, duikt met indringende eerlijkheid in thema's als identiteit, plaats en verlies. Hij schrijft met precieze taal en levendige beelden, die de lezer naar diepe introspectie leiden. Zijn poëzie biedt een uniek perspectief op de hedendaagse ervaring.
A fierce debut collection from NEA and Stegner fellow Edgar Kunz spare and intimate narrative poems that sprawl between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly as they struggle to reconcile a troubled young adulthood with the working poor New England of his youth
From the author of the award-winning and 'gritty, insightful debut' (Washington Post) Tap Out, Edgar Kunz's sophomore collection of poetry rolls up its sleeves to reckon with legacies of labor and the question of worth in a system built on exploitation. Fixer pairs love poems with elegies. Through the untimely death of his father, a handyman and addict, through first loves and lasting loves, Kunz asks what it costs, exactly, to build lives and relationships together. And is it possible to untether this work from the demands of daily survival? With lyrical yet accessible vignettes, expertly weaving melancholia and humor, Kunz brings the reader on a journey across the country, and through American late capitalism, that is both damning and brimming with hope.