Marcus Mccann: 2 books

Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork, anxiety, and overstimulation. McCann’s third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and too anxious, delivering the material with zero reverence and with...

The Hard Return is a broken list of metaphors for the human heart. Or its a troubling elegy for a disposable world. Alternating between loving descriptions of 21st century excess and awkward social situations, Marcus McCanns poems are sincere and ironic, sad and half-joking, often in the same instant.