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"From the author of the award-winning Tap Out - ""a gritty, insightful debut"" (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz's second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. The virtuosic central sequence explores the untimely death of the poet's estranged father, a handyman and addict, and the brothers left to sort through the detritus of a life long lost to them. Through lyrical, darkly humorous vignettes, Kunz asks what it costs to build a home and a love that not only lasts but sustains."

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Edgar Kunz is the real deal. Hard-nosed, hard-edged, and hard on his craft, he first caught us slipping with Tap Out-and now, before we could fully recover, he's followed up with the haymaker that is Fixer. Story, lyric, tight rhythms and taut lines. Intellect, heart. It's all here. Fans of Philip Levine, Denis Johnson, or Dorianne Laux will find in these poems reason to smile--even through tears--knowing that the tradition of the working class American lyric is in strong hands. This book is a god damned knock out. -- John Murrillo, author of Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry and Up Jump the Boogie I am deeply moved by Edgar Kunz's second collection, Fixer. Entirely surprising, the poems move from rumination to revelation, from devastation to determination, in effusive and masterful strokes. Fixer is a gospel of American truths, weighted by complex circumstances and freed by the imagination. A remarkable book by a poet who continues to shine with tender and lyrical precision. -- Tina Chang, author of Hybrida

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"Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which the Washington Post called ""a gritty insightful debut."" He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College."

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