{"product_id":"clay-adam-circle-bacpb","title":"Clay, Adam: Circle Back","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilkweed Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 12, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40780793872407,"sku":"9781639550982","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail_477cb740-ca4c-4d88-85cd-f25750593c2a.gif?v=1701908489","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/clay-adam-circle-bacpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}