Tap Out: Poems

Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of working-poor lives and mental health in America - yet Edgar Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. This hungry new voice asks: after you make the choice to leave, what is left behind, what can you make of it, and at what cost?