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Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World
Adam Clay
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Description for Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314413
SKU
V9781571314413
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About Adam Clay
Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006) and three chapbooks. His work has been published in A Public Space, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review. He co-edits Typo Magazine, curates the Poets in Print Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, and teaches at Western Michigan University. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Reviews for Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World
"Clay writes in the language of dreams...Adam Clay is a fresh voice full of promise and A Hotel Lobby At The Edge Of The World is definitely worth a read."
Gabino Iglesias, Black Heart Magazine "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 ... Read more
Gabino Iglesias, Black Heart Magazine "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 ... Read more