Fixer: Poems
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A New York Times Editorsâ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out â âa gritty, insightful debutâ (Washington Post) â Edgar Kunzâs second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.Â
 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 poetâs 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 author of two poetry collections: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editorsâ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which the Washington Post called âa gritty insightful debut.â 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.
