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James Wright and PhilipLevine in these gutsy,tough-minded,working-class poems ofmemory and initiation.Tap Out is a marvelous debut,a well-made and harrowing book.”—Edward Hirsch,author ofGabriel and APoet's Glossary  \n“Tap Out is an ardent and gorgeous refusal to scorn the achesand wounds that bring us closer to mercy.Rippling with bothsorrow and wonder,Edgar Kunz's narratives sift through theintricacies of masculinity,working-class lives,and abandonment.The telling isn't singed with nostalgia that obscures pain:hismuscular lines make visible the scars that tether the self to hurt,to hope.The language is deftly scored on the page—the dictionitself is revelatory.ShopRite.Larch.Chamber-throat.This bookreminds us the heart has its own intelligence.”  \n—Eduardo C.Corral,author ofSlow Lightning  \n“This powerful collection reads like an elegy and a confession,like a slap to the face followed by a plaintive kiss,like watchingbad things happen and knowing that you're complicit.Yetcutting through every one of these essential poems is a gritty,naturalistic beauty that makes me want to read them again andagain.Tap Out is a gem,and Edgar Kunz is a major talent.”  \n—Andre Dubus III,author ofGone So Longand Townie  \n\"There is no ground of existence that does not require(or failto sustain)its poet.This proposition,requiring continualre-proving,has found again its confirmation in Edgar Kunz'sfirst book.In the lineage of Levine,Jordan,and Laux,TapOut presents the data of blows received and taken in fully.Yetthese poems do not return blow for blow;they offer insteadan unflinching,continued allegiance to abiding connection.Without summation or comment,they remind us that allalchemies of being are possible.Kunzs precision-tool languageof memory and witness enlarges,pivots,pieces together thebroken into a world made new,survivable,holdable,forgiven.”  \n—Jane Hirshfield,author of  \nThe Beauty and Come,Thief  \n“The sustained lyricism of these poems is all the more powerfulfor being burned at the edges by memory,by grief,by regret.Interms of craft,this poetry creates a world where human actionreaches language the way gravity bends starlight:in a drama ofweight and light.This is a hard-pressed place,a territory of failedrelationships and regions that never becomes landscape.As itsreporter,Edgar Kunz lives up to its challenges and understandsits limits.This is a wonderful frst book,memorable andunsettling.”—Eavan Boland,author ofAWoman Without a Country  \n“Edgar Kunzs startling debut,Tap Out,is one of the best booksof poetry I've read in a long time.These poems interrogate whatis received and what is bequeathed in our damaged systemsof masculinity,and they do so in ways that are unexpectedlyvulnerable.At the same time,the poems are onomatopoeia ofhumility andbusted machismo.It's as if the poems themselves aresurprised by how much harm has been done,how much energyand emotion have been expended simply surviving inside of ourtoxic patriarchy.Fathers are complicit.Friends and brothers arecomplicit.The speaker is complicit,too,and yet the poems dotheir vital work without soapboxing.They search constantly forbetter ways of being human.These are essential poems.”  \n—Adrian Matejka,author ofThe Big Smoke and Map to the Stars  \n# TA P ○UT\n\nF  \nTA P○U T  \nPoems  \nEdgar Kunz  \nA MARINER ORIGINAL  \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT  \nBOSTON NEWYORK 2019  \nCopyright ⑥2019by Edgar Kunz  \nAll rights reserved  \nFor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book,write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions,  \nHoughton Miffin Harcourt Publishing Company,3 Park Avenue,19th Floor,New York,New York 10016.  \nhmhco.com  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames:Kunz,Edgar,author.  \nTitle:Tap out:poems/Edgar Kunz.  \nDescription:Boston:Mariner Books/Houghton Miffin Harcourt,2019.|\"A Mariner Original.\"  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