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The apparent ease with which real American places (with their serendipitous Classical and Biblical names) and subjects (animals, parents, children, lovers) morph into symbols of the human desire for an answer to all that questions is a tribute to Adams' patient, careful eye, as he observes, looks inward, then upward to the stars. --Suzanne Ferguson,

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"Not merely a travel diary of Micronesia... it is, rather, an engagement with what Elizabeth Bishop calls ""Questions of Travel,""--how our displacement through travel calls into question our very existence, as we witness other ways of living. Adams' poems are suffused with loneliness, longing, and wisdom of quiet witness. These are poems that look and look again, the kind of looking that goes inwards as much as outward. Reading them, I'm reminded that attention itself is a kind of love. --Philip Metres There is a strong, almost transcendent, sense of place in the poetry of David Adams. He tells you right away where you are as you read each poem in this book. The images are in focus, and rendered with the precision of a technical writer, but there is nothing technical about the emotional impact of the poems, which will take you on a journey from his Cleveland Ohio roots to the far side of the world, and back. --R.C. Wilson, Edith Chase Symposium Association"

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David Adams is a poet living in Burton, Ohio. For many years he was a wandering laborer, academic and technical writer, finally returning home in 2011. Hope as a Construction is his 11th collection of poems. His prose memoir, Casual Labor, was published by Blue Shale Books in 2021. With Linda Wagner-Martin, he edited Over West: Selected Writings of Frederick Eckman (1999. National Poetry Foundation). He is also the author of COPE: A Technical Writing Guide for Engineers, 4th Ed. 2021, University of New Haven. As a librettist, David collaborated with the composer Dawn Sonntag to complete in 2022 Clara: A Life and Death in Shadow, an opera in three acts about the life of Clara Haber.

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