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    To Make Room for the Sea

    By Adam Clay

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    About this ebook

  • Strong blurbs and support from major poets, including Ada Limón and Maggie Smith
  • Author's poems have been widely published in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Boston Review, and Iowa Review
  • Book's focus on climate change, parenthood, fatherhood, and intimate relationships provides opportunities for wide media coverage and readership
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9781571319722
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    To Make Room for the Sea
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    Adam Clay

    Adam Clay is the author of five collections of poems: Circle Back, To Make Room for the Sea, Stranger, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, and The Wash. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, jubilat, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, he teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits Mississippi Review.

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