Ashland

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Ashland by Gil Adamson, ECW Press
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Author: Gil Adamson ISBN: 9781554909858
Publisher: ECW Press Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Gil Adamson
ISBN: 9781554909858
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint:
Language: English

We look away from his open mouth,look instead at the corn, the crowsfloating above the river in their private worries.Tonight, when we turn in,the candle will sputter and blow.Pinched out easily, all flamegives way to this wide black wing.— excerpt from “Black Wing”

The poems in Ashland, originally published by ECW in 2003, lay the groundwork for Adamsons award–winning and internationally bestselling novel, The Outlander.

Neogothicism, the surrealist snapshot, feminist Western and postmodern parable are just some of the elements that feed Gil Adamsons second collection of poems. Adamson creates a world fully awash in violence and history, the absurdities of the frontier, the gorgeous terrors of death. Everything is simple, and yet nothing is as it seems.

Moving easily from prose poem to lyric, verbal portrait to improbable biography, Ashland leads us on a macabre tour of our nightmares, perverse secrets, and death–focused mythologies: “In the end we see ourselves. We last longer. The night opens its mouth, and we step in.”

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We look away from his open mouth,look instead at the corn, the crowsfloating above the river in their private worries.Tonight, when we turn in,the candle will sputter and blow.Pinched out easily, all flamegives way to this wide black wing.— excerpt from “Black Wing”

The poems in Ashland, originally published by ECW in 2003, lay the groundwork for Adamsons award–winning and internationally bestselling novel, The Outlander.

Neogothicism, the surrealist snapshot, feminist Western and postmodern parable are just some of the elements that feed Gil Adamsons second collection of poems. Adamson creates a world fully awash in violence and history, the absurdities of the frontier, the gorgeous terrors of death. Everything is simple, and yet nothing is as it seems.

Moving easily from prose poem to lyric, verbal portrait to improbable biography, Ashland leads us on a macabre tour of our nightmares, perverse secrets, and death–focused mythologies: “In the end we see ourselves. We last longer. The night opens its mouth, and we step in.”

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