The Wash
, by Clay, AdamNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781932559996 | 193255999X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/30/2006
Poetry. Rich in river imagery and an intense sense of the passage of time, THE WASH explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with a destination unknown. Interweaving the voices of John Clare, Audubon, Roethke, and others, the poems depict a landscape of loss in which language and images provide the only concrete platform on which to stand. Ending with an elegy for the self-portrait and an acceptance of the inevitability of decay, the speaker discovers "the stillness of frames both comforts and te