Curses and Wishes: Poems -

Carl Adamshick

LSU Press

2011

62 páginas

2h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780807137765

"This tone of voice, Carl Adamshick's, is a new one, a voice that cannot be faked and bears the marks of having been earned. The voice is at once intimate and cool - and mysterious. The content of the poetry is quiet yet raw, reticent yet voluptuous, and complex - complex as wine may be said to be complex. Adamshick has found ways to express emotions hard to pin down."
-Marvin Bell

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.

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.

"Many of us have been wishing for this book for years, and cheer its might arrival! Carl Adamshick reminds us what poetry, in its finest, most potent manifestations, can do."
-Naomi Shihab Nye