{"product_id":"to-make-room-for-the-sea-paperback","title":"To Make Room for the Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Clay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page. --MAGGIE SMITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea \u003c\/em\u003econvey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Clay\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eStranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wash\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBennington Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ejubilat\u003c\/i\u003e, and online at Poetry Daily and the Poem-a-Day project of the Academy of American Poets. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTypo Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book review editor for \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771439022368,"sku":"9781571314970","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41c47b0ff39a8b5733629f39285d7fb0.webp?v=1780386581","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/to-make-room-for-the-sea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}