Overview
An aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memoryās limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.
How does one make sense of lossāpersonal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with āa year meant to end all / those to come,ā acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is āwide enough to contain whatās left / of hope.ā In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of Circle Back wander griefās 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 complicatedāa āsketch turned to painting / left in a room dusty from / lack of passing through.ā
But amidst these liminal landscapes, a āthread of promiseā persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like āKeats, / sketching himself back into place.ā Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healingāand in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in griefās āstrange circle.ā Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. Circle Back is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.
This book title, Circle Back (Poems), ISBN: 9781639550982, by Adam Clay, published by Milkweed Editions (March 12, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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