{"product_id":"a-hotel-lobby-at-the-edge-of-the-world-poems-9781571314413","title":"A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe haunting and crystalline poems in Adam Clay's \u003cem\u003eA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World\u003c\/em\u003e examine the moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person realizes he can barely see the place he set out from, and must make his way back to the present.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagining the return to daily life as a negotiation between an inner world and the natural one, this collection tracks the subtly shifting tenors of thought that occur as the landscape around the speaker changes. In this journey, reverie can be a siren's song, and Thoreau's \"border life\" between civilization and wildness is realized in all its possibilities and difficulties. The resulting poems live somewhere between those of James Wright and John Ashbery: they seek wholeness even as they acknowledge that \"a fragment is as complete as thought can be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful and subtly complex, \u003cem\u003eA Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection filled with a generous gentleness--an attention to the world so careful it's as if the mind is \"washing each grain of sand.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Clay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314413","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42860073255049,"sku":"9781571314413","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_3bb59aba-fac5-41c4-9d11-2308347eca4b.jpg?v=1722316674","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-hotel-lobby-at-the-edge-of-the-world-poems-9781571314413","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}