The poems of Arkansas poet John Allen Adams reward close attention and reveal to the reader not only the poet's skill with words but also his humanity, his love for people, and his life-long dedication to opposing war and protecting the earth. If the focus of some of the poems seem grim we need to remember the decades in which they were written, the era of the Cold War, the carnage of the Vietnam War with its daily body counts, and the ever-present threat of mutually assured destruction, MAD, hanging over mankind like the sword of Damocles. Those issues may seem muted today because the Cold...
The poems of Arkansas poet John Allen Adams reward close attention and reveal to the reader not only the poet's skill with words but also his humanity...
