bWith tender attention and a keen curiosity, the poems in iI Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Mei are acutely aware of the ways in which poems commune with the living and the dead.b pHere are poems that are unafraid to ask, And who were we really--just some organized space By situating himself among lyric poets such as Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, and Amiri Baraka, Anthony McCann reveals how poetry can be a transformative type of devotion, that to amuse yourself this way is to be permanently real. By turns sorrowful and passionate, these poetic meditations ultimately leave us humbled in their wake. p