Curses and Wishes: Poems
The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns.
The poet has faith in economy and trusts in images to transfer knowledge that speech cannot. In Curses and Wishes the short, simple lines add up to a thoughtful book possessed with lyrical melancholy, a harmony of sadness and joy that sings: "May happiness be a wheel, a lit throne, spinning / in the vast pinprick of darkness." By the close of this ambitious work the poet has inspired readers to see the multifaceted effects of our human connections.
Author: Carl Adamshick
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/22/2011
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.52w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780807137765
Award: Walt Whitman Award - Winner
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Winner
About the Author
Carl Adamshick received an Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts and is a cofounder of Tavern Books. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Harvard Review, the Missouri Review, American Poet, and Narrative magazine.
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