{"product_id":"9781639550982","title":"Circle Back : Poems by Adam Clay","description":"An aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory's limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.   How does one make sense of loss-personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with \"a year meant to end all \/ those to come,\" acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is \"wide enough to contain what's left \/ of hope.\" In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of Circle Back wander grief's strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs: cows stare with otherworldly eyes, 78s play under cactus needles, a father becomes his own child, and the dead become something more complicated-a \"sketch turned to painting \/ left in a room dusty from \/ lack of passing through.\"But amidst these liminal landscapes, a \"thread of promise\" persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like \"Keats, \/ sketching himself back into place.\" Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healing-and in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in grief's \"strange circle.\" Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. Circle Back is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302794015093,"sku":"9781639550982","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781639550982.jpg?v=1762793293","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781639550982","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}