Ashland - Softcover

Gil Adamson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770410155 ISBN 13: 9781770410152

Publisher: ECW Press, 2011

Synopsis

?We look away from his open mouth, look instead at the corn, the crows floating above the river in their private worries. Tonight, when we turn in, the candle will sputter and blow. Pinched out easily, all flame gives way to this wide black wing. excerpt from Black Wing” The poems in Ashland, originally published by ECW in 2003, lay the groundwork for Adamson’s 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 Adamson’s 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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Product Description:

Neogothicism, the surrealist snapshot, feminist Western and post-modern parable are just some of the elements that feed Gil Adamson's second collection of poems. Adamson creates a world fully awash in violence and history, the absurdities of the frontier and the gorgeous terrors of death. Everything is simple, yet nothing is as it seems. Moving easily from prose poem to lyric, verbal portrait to improbable biography, Ashland leads readers on a macabre tour of their nightmares, perverse secrets and death-focused mythologies.

Review:

"Lean prose, full-bodied characterization, memorable settings, and scenes of hardship all lift this book above the pack." --"Publisher's Weekly" on "The Outlander"

"Adamson cleverly integrates techniques of the adventure-suspense novel with a refined, often poetic style." --"Booklist" on "The Outlander"

About this edition

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1770410155
• ISBN 13: 9781770410152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100