Books by Adam Clay
Mid/South Sonnets
by C.T. Salazar, Casie Dodd, Brandon Amico, JC Andrews, Susan April, Stacey Balkun, Makalani Bandele, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Andrea Blancas Beltran, Ellie Black, Darrell Bourque, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Justin Carter, Michelle Castleberry, George David Clark, Adam Clay, Christian J Collier, Dorsey Craft, Brody Parrish Craig, Hannah Dow, George Drew, CD Eskilson, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Beth Gordon, Maggie Graber, David Greenspan, Andrew Hemmert, Raye Hendrix, Maggie Rue Hess, Faylita Hicks, Erin Hoover, Randall Horton, SG Huerta, T.R. Hummer, Jules Jacob, Bethany Jarmul, Grant Matthew Jenkins, Edison Jennings, Ashley M Jones, Carol Parris Krauss, T.K. Lee, Steven Leyva, Aurielle Marie, Landon McGee, Benjamin Morris, Caleb Nolen, Mónica Teresa Ortiz, Alison Pelegrin, Samuel Prestridge, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, C. T. Salazar, Celeste Schueler, Gerry Sloan, Cody Smith, Tom Snarsky, Nathan Spoon, Colin James Sturdevant, Hiba Tahir, Nikki Ummel, Damien Uriah, Clara Bush Vadala, John Vanderslice, Cassandra Whitaker, Jim Whiteside, Marcus Wicker, Matthew Wimberley, Marianne Worthington, Jianqing Zheng
Mid/South Sonnets brings together sixty-six poets with ties throughout the American South. From Oklahoma to Florida-with larger clusters of work from the more centrally located Mid-Southern states, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee-the states represented through these writers offer a wide range of landscapes and perspectives that speak to the region's eclectic nature. While this anthology includes many conventional and experimental approaches to the sonnet form, each poem ultimately enacts an attempt to struggle through the anxieties of home in the hope of finding a place to love and belong.
Featuring:
Rasha Abdulhadi
Brandon Amico
JC Andrews
Susan April
Stacey Balkun
makalani bandele
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Andrea Blancas Beltran
Ellie Black
Darrell Bourque
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Justin Carter
Michelle Castleberry
George David Clark
Adam Clay
Christian J. Collier
Dorsey Craft
Brody Parrish Craig
Hannah Dow
George Drew
CD Eskilson
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Beth Gordon
Maggie Graber
David Greenspan
Andrew Hemmert
Raye Hendrix
Maggie Rue Hess
Faylita Hicks
Erin Hoover
Randall Horton
SG Huerta
T. R. Hummer
Jules Jacob
Bethany Jarmul
Grant Matthew Jenkins
Edison Jennings
Ashley M. Jones
Carol Parris Krauss
T. K. Lee
Steven Leyva
Aurielle Marie
Landon McGee
Benjamin Morris
Caleb Nolen
mónica teresa ortiz
Alison Pelegrin
Samuel Prestridge
Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
Celeste Schueler
Gerry Sloan
Cody Smith
Tom Snarsky
Nathan Spoon
colin james sturdevant
Hiba Tahir
Nikki Ummel
Damien Uriah
Clara Bush Vadala
John Vanderslice
Cassandra Whitaker
Jim Whiteside
Marcus Wicker
Matthew Wimberley
Marianne Worthington
Jianqing Zheng
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Circle Back: Poems
by Adam Clay
An aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.
How 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 Circle Back 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. Circle Back is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.
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To Make Room for the Sea
by Adam Clay
"That's the magic of this book—the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." —MAGGIE SMITH
To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that “it’s easier to love what we don’t know.”
“I hold this leaf I think / you should see, but I can’t quite / say why,” Adam Clay writes, as he navigates a variety of both personal and ecological fixations: disembodied bullfrog croaks, the growth of his child, a computer’s dreaded blue screen of death. The observations in To Make Room for the Sea convey both grief for the Anthropocene and hope for the future. The poems read like field notes from someone who knows the world and hopes to know it differently.
On the precipice of great change and restructured perspective, Clay’s poems linger in “the second between taking in a vision and processing it,” in the moment when the world is less a familiar system and more a palette of colors and potential.
To Make Room for the Sea delights as much as it mourns. It looks forward as much as it reflects. Deft and hopeful, the poems in this collection gently encourage us to take another look at a world “only some strange god might have thought up / in a drunken stumble.”
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