{"product_id":"circle-back-poems-paperback","title":"Circle Back: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Clay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory's limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow does one make sense of loss--personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with \"a year meant to end all \/ those to come,\" acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is \"wide enough to contain what's left \/ of hope.\" In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of \u003ci\u003eCircle Back\u003c\/i\u003e wander grief's strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs: cows stare with otherworldly eyes, 78s play under cactus needles, a father becomes his own child, and the dead become something more complicated--a \"sketch turned to painting \/ left in a room dusty from \/ lack of passing through.\"But amidst these liminal landscapes, a \"thread of promise\" persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like \"Keats, \/ sketching himself back into place.\" Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healing--and in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in grief's \"strange circle.\" Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. \u003ci\u003eCircle Back\u003c\/i\u003e is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Clay is the author of five collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eCircle Back\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wash\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Cincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e jubilat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. A recipient of a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, he teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352591450361,"sku":"9781639550982","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/x4-IozCd259781639550982.webp?v=1769811460","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/circle-back-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}