Father of Noise

by Anthony McCann

Anthony McCann seeks out the elusive Other with all the raucous self-loathing of a mad saint. Eroticized, debunked, adored, and despised, the sayer of these incantations ventures with appropriate fearfulness into the known, buoyed only by the persistence of the body in its current manifestation. His penetrating, pervasive doubt lends a perverse clarity to the journey.

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

About the author

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of four collections of poetry including Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014). His book Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (Bloomsbury, 2019) is a nonfiction prose work investigating the 2016 armed right-wing occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Anthony’s teaching, writing and research interests include 19th, 20th and 21st century North American Poetry; Political Theology; Political Ecology; Native American History; History of the Revolutionary, Constitutional and Reconstruction eras; Ecological History of the American West; Cultural Anthropology; Modern Latin American Poetry; and Anarchist thought and practice as it pertains to art-making, politics and other spheres of human endeavor. He lives in the Mojave Desert.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read Moon Garden a while back and couldn't get into it-- it was somehow too abstract to me, too hard to connect it back to anything identifiable. Maybe because this is an earlier book, it felt less distanced for me, and I really got into it. There are some beautiful lyrics here, the kind of poems I want to write everytime I get 24hours alone in Brooklyn. Magical, transformational, musical and richly felt. This is a really enjoyable book of poems.