I Am The Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me

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With tender attention and a keen curiosity, the poems in I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me are acutely aware of the ways in which poems commune with the living and the dead.

Here are poems that are unafraid to ask, And who were we reallyjust some organized space By situating himself among lyric poets such as Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, and Amiri Baraka, Anthony McCann reveals how poetry can be a transformative type of devotion, that to amuse yourself this way / is to be permanently real. By turns sorrowful and passionate, these poetic meditations ultimately leave us humbled in their wake.

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McCann examines our attachment to the physical world and uses this to build a bridge to the metaphysical; in his undulating world, the physical self is a gift, one that gives us a hand to feel that pulse, a shape in all the noise.

Publishers Weekly

McCann demonstrates that the truth surrounds us all; our best way of connecting with it is through compassion and love. With equal parts exuberance and dread, the speaker encourages us to waste the whole day feeling these things.

Nate Pritts, Boston Review

You might not get exactly what he is saying but you will feel what he is meaning. You will be moved by something pre-historic and radiant. Which is to say: you will be moved by this mysterious, lyric, ecstatic thing: poetry.

Matthew Dickman, Tin House

Author Bio

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three 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 lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. He is the Poet Laureate of Machine Project and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts.