Description Brutal and tender, Adamshick\'s spare poems recount a son\'s unsentimental and powerful love for his mother, while contemplating, in the wake of her death, what it is to be truly alive.
He has won a number of awards, including the 199.
About the Author Carl Adamshick is the author of Curses and Wishes (LSU Press, 2011), Saint Friend (McSweeney\'s, 2014), Footprints (Wiesedruck, 2017), Receipt (Lost Horse Press, 2017), and Birches (Four Way Books, 2019).
Description Brutal and tender, Adamshick\'s spare poems recount a son\'s unsentimental and powerful love for his mother, while contemplating, in the wake of her death, what it is to be truly alive