A Useless Window

by Carrie Olivia Adams

This series of poems by our very own Poetry Editor in Chicago embodies the title perfectly as it explores the paradox of form and function in life and language. Quiet without being subdued, intelligent without being obtuse, and deeply affecting without resorting to melodrama, this book carries itself into the reader with arresting honesty and simplicity that is at once harsh and elegant.Praise for A Useless “Her spare lyrics emphasize the role of the individual surrounded with the ineffable qualities of silence and empty ‘If there is a footnote to absence,’ she writes, ‘it is the beating heart.’”—Coldfront Magazine

Genres: Poetry

40 pages, Chapbook

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago where she is the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press and the poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her books include Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks “Proficiency Badges,” “Grapple,” “Overture in the Key of F,” and “A Useless Window.” When she’s not making poems, she’s making biscuits.

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