"That's the magic of this book-the way Adam Clay, line after line,
enacts the mind on the page." -MAGGIE SMITH To Make Room for the
Sea 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." "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 To Make Room for
the Sea 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. On 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. To Make Room for the Sea 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."
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