With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity the poems inampamp160I am the dead who you take care of meampamp160are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.ampamp160Followingampamp160the poets recent prose work on the historical and ecological conflicts of the American Westampamp160these poems are necrosocial biomes where the living play dead and the dead bite back. Here we find that the past is a perfect copy of the land. But with all the panic of the meat.ampamp160ampamp160By situating himself among lyric poets such as Jack Spicer John Ashbery and Amiri Baraka Anthony McCann reveals how poetry can be both an unnerving and enlivening sort of devotion.