
Curses and Wishes
Poems
Carl Adamshick(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 30. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-8071-3776-5 (ISBN)
Description
The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevated conversational 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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
92 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-3776-5 (9780807137765)
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Person
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.