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Adam Clay

A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World

“At the edge of the world, you’ll want to have this book. The final lines of Adam Clay’s poem, ‘Scientific Method,’ have been haunting me for weeks.” —Iowa Press-Citizen
The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clay’s A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World often arrive at that moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person suddenly realizes he can barely see the place he set out from however long ago. He now sees he must find his connection back to the present, socially entangled world in which he lives. For Clay, reverie can be a siren’s song, luring him to that space in which prisoners will begin “to interrogate themselves.”
Clay pays attention to the poet’s return to the world of his daily life, tracking the subtly shifting tenors of thought that occur as the landscape around him changes. Clay is fully aware of the difficulties of Thoreau’s “border life,” and his poems live somewhere between those of James Wright and John Ashbery: They seek wholeness, all the while acknowledging that “a fragment is as complete as thought can be.” In the end, what we encounter most in these poems is a generous gentleness—an attention to the world so careful it’s as if the mind is “washing each grain of sand.”
“Poems that are in turn clear and strange, and always warmly memorable.” —Bob Hicok
“These poems engage fully the natural world . . . even as they understand the individual’s exclusion from it.” —Publishers Weekly
37 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2012
Год выхода издания
2012
Издательство
Milkweed Editions
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Цитаты

  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует2 года назад
    What’s more important than all of this,
    what’s always been more important

    than any of this, is the question

    of how to set work aside for another day —
    for instance,
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует2 года назад
    When you find your voice.
    When you light a cigarette
    for the dead smoker on the other end. Wind.

    When you reinvent grammar,

    and that new grammar hems you in.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует2 года назад
    When the television blares and you don’t hear it.
    When a hay bale rings on the nightstand
    and you answer it.

    (If it rings, answer it.)
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