{"product_id":"9781938235078","title":"Punch.","description":"Ray McManus’s third book of poetry, Punch., is a call for the claw-hammer, a hymn to the steel toe, and a series of lonely missives from truck cabs and office cubicles. Punch. is a book about work, about the will that rises and the dust that falls. It is about being “lost, hungry, and hopeless, creeping toward the pipelines in a '78 Buick Regal with Big Star on the radio.” Sometimes angry, sometimes darkly funny, these lean and muscular poems explore the world of punching in and punching out, the punch-drunk and the sucker-punched. Whether the poems are tightened by the rhythm of a hard hand, or the lines sprawl across the page with swagger, there is real music here. Brute voices, contemplative and haunting, speak to us with unwavering self-conflict and salty confidence. In these poems, life is a struggle and the end is already written, but there's something deeply moving about the resilience and resistance of these voices: “Lunch won't be here \/ for another hour,” one says, “so when the rain \/ comes, it is welcome.”","brand":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040469631216,"sku":"9781938235078","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938235078_p0.jpg?v=1763663281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938235078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}