A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World

Poems

Adam Clay

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Milkweed Editions
24 July 2012

Poetry by individual poets

The haunting and crystalline poems in Adam Clay'sA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the Worldexamine the moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person realizes he can barely see the place he set out from, and must make his way back to the present.

Imagining the return to daily life as a negotiation between an inner world and the natural one, this collection tracks the subtly shifting tenors of thought that occur as the landscape around the speaker changes. In this journey, reverie can be a siren's song, and Thoreau's ""border life"" between civilization and wildness is realized in all its possibilities and difficulties. The resulting poems live somewhere between those of James Wright and John Ashbery: they seek wholeness even as they acknowledge that ""a fragment is as complete as thought can be.""

Thoughtful and subtly complex,A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the Worldis a collection filled with a generous gentleness-an attention to the world so careful it's as if the mind is ""washing each grain of sand.""

By: Adam Clay
Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9781571314413
ISBN 10: 1571314415
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 24 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems

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. Â 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 for weeks . . . Few people could write a better poetic line than Adam Clay does. Â Jeff Charis-Carlson, Iowa Press-Citizen