Adam's Ribs

In Adam's Ribs, poet Terry Adams stakes his claim to be the new American Adam, and his bona fides is an eye and ear that perceive and shape with the double perception of innocence and experience. Reading Adams’ poems is like riding with him on his Harley, “ footpeg scraping sparks from the concrete… .”

The child of newspaper editors, with roots in Cincinnati, Ohio, Terry Adams grew up in newsrooms and Catholic grammar schools. He earned an MA in Creative Writing and Literature at Miami Univeristy, Ohio. During the Vietnam War era, he became Top Secret Control Officer at the U.S. Air Force’ s Strategic Air Command Headquarters, where he had the opportunity to contemplate his personal role in the destruction of civilization. He left the services as a conscientious objector in 1972. Adams' poems have appeared in Bellowing Ark, College English, The Sun, Witness, and other journals.