I Heart Your Fate

(Paperback)

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Connected to LA fine arts community through Cal Arts
Acting poet laureate of The Machine Project
Graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
Clear and approachable poetry with emotional, natural, and narrative elements
Strong candidate for course adoptions
Energetic performer who will tour in support of this book
will in fact be a heart symbol

Reviews

"...not even your own mother would believe your description of it. ... Sucked under, friend, into the unforgiving brine." --Jeremy Schmall, The Best American Poetry Blog "Throughout this playful, heartfelt and enriching collection, McCann demonstrates that the truth surrounds us all; our best way of connecting with it is through compassion and love." --Nate Pritts, Boston Review "To find yourself in the middle of an Anthony McCann poem is to be surrounded by a rich, descriptive elegance...What appears simple becomes infinitely dynamic and fractured." --Nick Sturm, H_ngm_n "Though at times what's seen is threatening or ominous, these poems are ultimately celebratory, and the world is one in which "it's nice to be held while watching the waves." --Jennifer Moore, Another Chicago Magazine

Author Bio

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.