Review: A portrait of America in three gritty, candid and imaginative collections
Tap Out Many of the people in Edgar Kunz’s gritty, insightful debut are in tough spots: men trapped in difficult, physical jobs, teens playing with a gun, young adults battling despair or addiction. Some are able to tap out, or escape, before they are seriously hurt. Others don’t, and irreparably damage themselves and their loved ones. At the heart of “Tap Out” is the difficult relationship between Kunz and his abusive, alcoholic father, who was heroic only in his own made-up stories.
Magical Negro In her third collection, “Magical Negro” , Morgan Parker continues to fearlessly explore what it means to be a black woman in the United States today. Like Terrance Hayes, Parker draws on pop culture, current events and history to inform these poems, providing various backdrops and foils that help her challenge stereotypes and define her own complex, nuanced ideas. “I know the world is dangerous/ Everyone tells me sorry,” she notes in one poem.
Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky’s cutting-edge second collection, “Deaf Republic” , presents a sweeping drama about a fictional town where residents are oblivious to the military occupation around them. This continues until a deaf boy is murdered, and the people rebel by pretending they can’t hear the commands of the soldiers. Kaminsky, who is hard of hearing himself, uses each poem to advance a story that is broken into two parts.
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