Model of a City in Civil War

By Adam Day

Men carry a mattress retrieved
from a dumpster past the flooded
foundations of an unfinished
high-rise, an old woman catches
a pigeon in the folds of her dress
the dead smile and rise from swimming
pools or stand at attention
on stamps. The landscape can't believe
it's real—there is no ground
beneath it, like what mirrors do.

Adam Day is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and Kentucky Arts Council, and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, the Iowa Review, and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Release date: Mar 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781941411063

Adam Day

After his early career as a human-rights lawyer, Adam Day works with the United Nations in the Middle East. He once dreamed of being a professor of literature, and now he spends much of his free time (and some of his time at work) dreaming up stories and poems. He has two daughters who teach him new words every day.   Nicole Stremlow-Monahan has worked as an architect and art director. She now illustrates children’s books from her creek-side studio in Washington where she also teaches art to children and adults. She gets inspiration for her characters from her kids, husband, dogs, goats, chicken, lizards and turtles.

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