Finalist For The 2021 Housatonic Book Award In Poetrywinner Of The 2019max Ritvo Poetry Prize,the Clearingis A Lush, Lyrical Book About A World Where Women Are Meant To Carry Things To Safety And Men Leave Decisively (henri Cole).luminous And Electric From The First Line To The Last, Allison Adairs Debut Collection Navigates The Ever-shifting Polesof Violence And Vulnerability With A Singular Incisiveness And A Rich Imagination. The Women In These Poems Live In Places That Have Been Excavated For Gold And Precious Ores, And They Understand The Nature Of Being Hollowed Out. From The Midst Of The Civil War To Our Current Era, Adair Charts Fairy Tales That Are Painfully Familiar, Never Forgetting That Violence Is Often Accompanied By Tenderness.