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LITTLE PALACE
In his debut poetry collection Little Palace, Adam Gellings gives readers a perfect example of that often-repeated but rarely achieved instruction: “show, don’t tell.” These sophisticated poems wander through the busy streets of Paris, past quiet courtyards full of flowers, into a kitchen that smells of fresh-baked bread. This metropolitan yet nostalgic collection brings the reader into new places and experiences while reminding them of familiar truths about human connection, the fugitive feeling of travel, and the universality of art.
Praise for LITTLE PALACE:
Ushering his reader softly through intimate scenes of life in Paris, Adam J. Gellings, whose speaker’s “heart, like an old snail, is not the same heart it once was,” makes me hungry to return to this city of smoky rooms, street cats, Cézanne paintings, and fresh baguettes. But, ah, I have already just been there “pounding hard” fresh dough “to reshape its center against the snowy counter until its figure is full.” That’s how I feel reading Little Palace—like I have just been to Paris again.
-Kimberly Ann Priest, author of Slaughter the One Bird
Adam J. Gellings doesn't write poems so much as he partitions arrondissements of feeling on the page.
-Dante Di Stefano, author of Lullaby with Incendiary Device