Bøger af Adam Clay

The author is incredibly prolific has published work in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review and the Georgia ReviewThe author has published five collections of poems and is widely connected in the poetry community, including with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada LimónThe book’s accessible poems and exploration of grief will appeal to a wide readership

The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clays 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 sirens song, luring him to that space in which prisoners will begin to interrogate themselves.Clay pays attention to the poets 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 Thoreaus 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 its as if the mind is washing each grain of sand.