Curses and Wishes: Poems

by Carl Adamshick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807137766
• ISBN13: 9780807137765
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"