Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates
the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich
imagination and a singular incisiveness, "asserting feminist
viewpoints and mortal terror in lush musical lines" (New York
Times). The women in Allison Adair's debut collection-luminous and
electric from the first line to the last-live in places that have
been excavated for gold and precious ores. They understand the
nature of being hollowed out, of being "the planet's stone / core
as it tries to carve out one secret place and fails." And so, as
these poems take us from the midst of the Civil War to our current
era, they chart fairy tales that are at once unsettling and
painfully familiar, never forgetting that cruelty compels us to
search for tenderness. "What if this time," they ask, "instead of
crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does she have."
Adair sees the dirt beneath our nails, both alone and as a country,
and pries it gently loose until we remember something of who we
are, "from before . . . from a similar injury or kiss." There is a
dark tension in this work, and its product is wholly "an alchemical
feat, turning horror into beauty" (Boston Globe).
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