“A GRITTY, INSIGHTFUL DEBUT.”
“CHARTS THE GRITTY, PHYSICAL TERRAIN
OF BLUE-COLLAR MASCULINITY.”
“A WHIRLWIND DEBUT.
KUNZ ARRIVES WITH REAL TALENT.”
“AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW VOICE.”
“A HARD-HITTING JOURNEY.”
Winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Poetry | Winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry
“Gorgeous . . . Rippling with both sorrow and wonder.” — Eduardo C. Corral
“One of the best books of poetry I’ve read in a long time” — Adrian Matejka
“A wonderful first book, memorable and unsettling.” — Eavan Boland
“Reminds us that all alchemies of being are possible.” — Jane Hirshfield
“Gutsy, tough-minded. A marvelous debut.” — Edward Hirsch
“Tap Out is a gem, and Edgar Kunz is a major talent.” — Andre Dubus III
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Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a New York Times New & Noteworthy pick. His writing has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems appear widely, including in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Sewanee Review, New England Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the low-residency Newport MFA.
LA Review of Books – “In the weeks after I left I waited/for someone a friend or her herself to walk…”
Poetry Daily – “When you showed up drunk as hell, humming/tunelessly to yourself…”
Ours Poetica / Poetry Foundation 📹– “Still somewhere in me the summer/spent driving steel into the wet earth…”
The Slowdown w/ Tracy K. Smith 🔊– “There’s no one left to see his hands/lifting from the engine bay…”
The Writer’s Almanac w/ Garrison Keillor 🔊– “You said I moved for you once/already. You said I need this.”
New England Review – "Mike pins me to the sink, forearm/levered against my throat…"
Ploughshares 🔊– “He’d tell me/about the distant servers//that mine electronic coins/by solving complex equations.”
Sewanee Review – “Most days the same/with minor variations. Flat blue//of the 5am kitchen.”
Gulf Coast – "The receptionist holds up/a small paper bag/stapled shut. Whatever/you had worth saving."
NEA Writers' Corner – "He has state-sponsored cell phone minutes/and a camo jacket hung on the sideview to dry."
+ 🔊 via New England Review / Bread Loaf Writers' Conference here.
