Often, Common, Some, and Free

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By Samuel Amadon

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Often, Common, Some, and Free is a collection of poems exploring the theme of transformation, weaving through formal and aesthetic shifts. The poems navigate the construction and demolition of urban landscapes, ranging from the bustling streets of New York to the theft at Boston's Gardner Museum. The speaker is constantly in flux—physically moving through cities and metaphorically shifting perspectives, merging his voice with others. Ultimately, these poems resist destruction and seek to capture a stillness amid change.
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This collection will appeal to readers of contemporary poetry, especially those interested in urban transformation, cultural history, and lyrical experimentation.

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Poems considering ever-present transformations and resisting destruction.

Often, Common, Some, and Free is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrains, these poems take on the subject of change, considering the construction and demolition of buildings, roaming between cities, and drawing together an image of a world in flux.

The speaker is in movement—walking, flying, swimming, and taking the train, while also constantly twisting in his sentences, turning into different versions of himself, and braiding his voice with others.

These poems take on subjects that encompass creation and loss from Robert Moses’s career transforming the cityscape of New York to the robbery of works from Boston’s Gardner Museum. But, ultimately, these poems aim to resist destruction, to focus on the particular, and to hold still their world and their ever-shifting speaker.

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Terrance Hayes praises the book's "mercurial energies" and "enigmatic clarity," likening the experience to immersive art and describing Amadon's voice as "lyrical" and "expressive." Magdalena Zurawski notes the poems' vivid evocation of civic history and grandeur, recommending readers prepare for an intense journey. The work is celebrated for its complex interplay of memory, place, and identity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632430946

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 152g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Samuel Amadon

About the Author

Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea, The Hartford Book, and Listener. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Lana Turner, Volta, and elsewhere. He is the director of the MFA Program at the University of South Carolina, where, with Liz Countryman, he edits the journal Oversound.