PositiveBookPage\"Kunz’s straightforward verse is captivating in assembling contexts for these hard men ... These are intimate scenes with men that struggle with intimacy, charging quiet moments with intensity, and intensifying quiet moments ... What flourishes in these near-empty scenes are the crevices, hands \'gnarled / as roots dripping river mud,\' a \'Split nail grown back // scalloped and crooked,\' \'The stitch- / puckered skin,\' the life a body shows.\
Hala Alyan
PositiveBookPage\"... a collection of poems that explores the intimate concept of aging through narratives that form a compelling, central admission: that the recklessness of youth and the experiences from which we create personal truth are necessary to the formation of wisdom ... The poems assembled in The Twenty-Ninth Year tug \'the humble out of something wild\' with an elegant and stylish range of forms ... In this process of gathering the past at the feet of the present, the emotional dynamic of how \'every wound reveals its own repair\' is a countenance of wisdom.\
