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© 2016, Text by Adam Clay
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clay, Adam, 1978-
[Poems. Selections]
Stranger : poems / Adam Clay. -- First edition.
pages ; cm
ISBN 978-1-57131-463-5 (acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-57131-909-8 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3603.L385A6 2016
811’.6--dc23
2015017007
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STRANGER
1 To Take Note of Where We Are
8 The End Time Before the End Time
9 Even a Straight Line Must Curve to Shape the World
11 Sometimes I Miss Your Life More Than I Miss You
12 Tell Me Now, Again, Who I Am
TWO
1 Start This Record Over
2 Sounds of an Emptying House
3 Not Quite Right
4 Compost Hymn
5 Occupied Elsewhere
6 Our Eternal Sounds
7 East Jackson Drive
8 The Cradle of All There Is
9 Elegant Comparison
10 Our Daily Becoming
THREE
1 This Is a Frame
FOUR
1 Abstract Evolution
2 For the First Fog of October
3 Glare
4 Season
5 Honest Attempt
6 First Winter in Kentucky
7 Nightcap
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