{"product_id":"punch-9781938235078","title":"Punch","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ray McManus\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hub City Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hub City Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999651152023,"sku":"9781938235078","price":717.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781938235078.webp?v=1783601319","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/punch-9781938235078","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}