To make room for the sea : poems / by Adam Clay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clay, Adam, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"To Make Room for the Sea is a collection of reflective poems about personal and environmental loss, and hope for the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Good-bye to Golden Nights p. 1

Last Anniversary p. 2

Mississippi Elegy p. 4

Go Birding p. 5

How Do You Feel about Ashbery? p. 6

Meditation for the Silence of Morning p. 8

At the Heart of a Multitude of Things p. 9

Only Child (III) p. 11

Found in Translation p. 12

How the World Began p. 13

The Seams Don't Show p. 14

Now Warm and Capable p. 16

Understories p. 17

In Bed and Where Is the Sun? p. 21

Acre, Heather, Square p. 23

For a Turtle Eating a Strawberry p. 24

A Joke about How Old We've Become p. 25

Blue Screen of Death p. 27

Only Child (II) p. 28

Ghazal for a Farewell Transmission p. 29

The Terror of Flight p. 30

America p. 32

State of the Union p. 33

My Thought Is Only a Mirror for Yours p. 35

Form of Love p. 36

Just Off a Highway in North Central Missouri p. 37

Elsewhere p. 38

Immortality for Mary Ruefle p. 39

The Art That We Are p. 40

When the Whale Becomes the Wave p. 41

Where the Map Is p. 42

What Shines Does Not Always Need To p. 43

Watching You Make Dinner p. 44

Fall Bird p. 45

Exile p. 46

Finding Yourself in a Museum Gallery p. 47

No Longer Yours p. 48

Broken Form p. 49

Sonnet p. 50

Taken Off the Bone p. 51

Domestic Barbarians p. 52

Only Child (I) p. 53

Uncovered at the Falls p. 55

Confluence of Objects p. 57

And Late ... p. 60

If I Could Write Small Enough, These Words Would Fit on the Back of a Postcard p. 61

For Broken Things p. 62

In Praise of Unknowing p. 65.

Other Format:

Online version: Clay, Adam, 1978- To make room for the sea

ISBN:

9781571314970

1571314970

OCLC:

1112281368

Publisher Number:

99983781200