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  • Anthony McCann is the author of six volumes of poetry including I am the dead, who, you take care of me; Thing Music; and I ♥︎ Your Fate. His non-fiction work Shadowlands chronicled the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the sagebrush steppe of Eastern Oregon. Born and raised in the woodlands of the upper Hudson Valley of New York State, he lives with his family in the Mojave Desert.

  • Reviews
    McCann demonstrates that the truth surrounds us all; our best way of connecting with it is through compassion and love. With equal parts exuberance and dread, the speaker encourages us to “waste the whole day feeling these things.”
    Nate Pritts, Boston Review

    For McCann, a poem is a thing capable of astonishing a reader, as well as a thing able to represent the astonishment of its speaker. As a result, speaker and reader alike are willing to remain in the position of observers of beauty, both of objects and the language which colors them.
    Jennifer Moore, Another Chicago Magazine

    You might not “get” exactly what he is saying but you will feel what he is meaning. You will be moved by something pre-historic and radiant. Which is to say: you will be moved by this mysterious, lyric, ecstatic thing: poetry.
    Matthew Dickman, Tin House

    Reviews of books by Anthony McCann

    Thing Music

    I ♥ Your Fate

    Moongarden

  • Poems
    - Eight poems (in The Brooklyn Rail)
    - “This Living Hand” (in Spoke to Soon)
    - “The Day” (in PEN America)
    - “Mouth Guitar,” with commentary (at the Poetry Society of America)
    - Three Poems (in Ghost Town)
    - Four poems (in The Brooklyn Rail)
    - Five poems, and a poetics statement with seven poems (in H_NGM_N)
    - “Woe to the Wildebeest, Whose Flesh Is to Be Torn” (in Verse Daily)

    Interviews and Discussions
    - Anthony McCann interviews himself at The Nervous Breakdown
    - Fanzine, with Andrew James Weatherhead
    - Anthony McCann and Matthew Rohrer interview each other at Studio One

    Articles
    - “Open Door” article about Ljubljana for The Poetry Foundation

  • Audio



    - “Mouth Guitar” at PennSound
    - “Let The Right One In” at PennSound
    - Reading for Machine Project's Mystery Theater Poetry Archives:


    Video
    Anthony McCann reads from I AM THE DEAD, WHO, YOU TAKE CARE OF ME in Joshua Tree, CA.

    Reading at City Lights Books:

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