Moongarden

Like moonlight, McCann’s attention gives weird clarity and an alien glow to post-industrial landscapes and human interiors. These poems are startling and irreverent, but also emotional and approachable. They uncivilize us into seeing the world as both ruin and possibility: “It was danger/ gave them life/ but damage/ makes us shine.”

Anthony McCann is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first book, Father of Noise, was published by Fence Books in 2003. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he teaches English as a Second Language.