I Heart Your Fate

In his new book, McCann (Moongarden) is both a vivid observer and a participant in a world where the line between reality and illusion is blurred. His poems have their own reality yet seep through ordinary objects and events to pronounce their singularities. McCann uses poetic devices like repetition and alliteration to explore moments of mental and emotional tension and creates a lively bond between the abstract and the concrete: "later we saw/ EAGLES/ We saw/ eagles/ big as nouns." The surreal images and meditative language that result disclose the power of words and their creative possibilities, while paradox and comical scenes reflect the absurdity tangled in everyday life: "How can one person/ have so many soaps? Who is this little/ crab girl/ with the mermaid tail/ in the dish? So many soaps and still my feet stink."