Publisher's Synopsis
"From the author of the award-winning and 'gritty, insightful debut' (Washington Post) Tap Out, Edgar Kunz's sophomore collection of poetry rolls up its sleeves and reckons with lifetimes of labor, and what worth really means within a system built upon exploitation. Set in our unsettling American landscape that demands near constant labor from its citizens, these poems seek stability, moments of rest, safety. They take stock, count what work has reaped, weigh the worth of the hours or lifetimes spent earning livings with one's body: scoring glass to crack them into window panes, fixing every leaky faucet and sticky door. Fixer pairs love poems with poems of grief. Reckoning with the untimely death of his working-poor alcoholic father with first loves and lasting loves, Kunz asks what it costs, exactly, to build lives and relationships together. And is it possible at all to redefine labor and untether it from daily survival? With lyrical
