{"product_id":"to-make-room-for-the-sea-9781571314970","title":"To Make Room for the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"That's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page.\" --MAGGIE SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that \"it's easier to love what we don't know.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I hold this leaf I think \/ you should see, but I can't quite \/ say why,\" Adam Clay writes, as he navigates a variety of both personal and ecological fixations: disembodied bullfrog croaks, the growth of his child, a computer's dreaded blue screen of death. The observations in \u003ci\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e convey both grief for the Anthropocene and hope for the future. The poems read like field notes from someone who knows the world and hopes to know it differently.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the precipice of great change and restructured perspective, Clay's poems linger in \"the second between taking in a vision and processing it,\" in the moment when the world is less a familiar system and more a palette of colors and potential.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Make Room for the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e delights as much as it mourns. It looks forward as much as it reflects. Deft and hopeful, the poems in this collection gently encourage us to take another look at a world \"only some strange god might have thought up \/ in a drunken stumble.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Adam Clay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660150927516,"sku":"9781571314970","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d036c077-fb62-4495-b08c-b6b36b466215.jpg?v=1603896209","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/to-make-room-for-the-sea-9781571314970","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}