{"product_id":"punch-9781938235078","title":"Punch","description":"\u003cp\u003eRay McManus’s third book of poetry, Punch., is a call for the claw-hammer, a hymn to the steel toe, and a series of lonely missives from truck cabs and office cubicles. Punch. is a book about work, about the will that rises and the dust that falls. It is about being “lost, hungry, and hopeless, creeping toward the pipelines in a '78 Buick Regal with Big Star on the radio.” Sometimes angry, sometimes darkly funny, these lean and muscular poems explore the world of punching in and punching out, the punch-drunk and the sucker-punched. Whether the poems are tightened by the rhythm of a hard hand, or the lines sprawl across the page with swagger, there is real music here. Brute voices, contemplative and haunting, speak to us with unwavering self-conflict and salty confidence. In these poems, life is a struggle and the end is already written, but there's something deeply moving about the resilience and resistance of these voices: “Lunch won't be here \/ for another hour,” one says, “so when the rain \/ comes, it is welcome.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray McManus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284293955835,"sku":"9781938235078","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781938235078.jpg?v=1772488126","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/punch-9781938235078","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}