The Clearing (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)
Language: English
Published by Milkweed Editions, 2022
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- The Clearing (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)
- Author
- Allison Adair
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1639550232
- ISBN 13
- 9781639550234
- Seller catalogs
- POETRY
The women in Allison Adair’s debut collection―luminous and electric from the first line to the last―live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores. They understand the nature of being hollowed out, of being “the planet’s stone / core as it tries to carve out one secret place and fails.” And so, as these poems take us from the midst of the Civil War to our current era, they chart fairy tales that are at once unsettling and painfully familiar, never forgetting that cruelty compels us to search for tenderness. “What if this time,” they ask, “instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does she have.”
Adair sees the dirt beneath our nails, both alone and as a country, and pries it gently loose until we remember something of who we are, “from before . . . from a similar injury or kiss.” There is a dark tension in this work, and its product is wholly “an alchemical feat, turning horror into beauty” (Boston Globe).
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