David J Adams
David Adams is a poet living in Burton, Ohio. For many years he was a wandering laborer, academic and technical writer, finally returning home in 2011. Hope as a Construction is his 11th collection of poems. His prose memoir, Casual Labor, was published by Blue Shale Books in 2021. With Linda Wagner-Martin, he edited Over West: Selected Writings of Frederick Eckman (1999. National Poetry Foundation). He is also the author of COPE: A Technical Writing Guide for Engineers, 4th Ed. 2021,...See more
David Adams is a poet living in Burton, Ohio. For many years he was a wandering laborer, academic and technical writer, finally returning home in 2011. Hope as a Construction is his 11th collection of poems. His prose memoir, Casual Labor, was published by Blue Shale Books in 2021. With Linda Wagner-Martin, he edited Over West: Selected Writings of Frederick Eckman (1999. National Poetry Foundation). He is also the author of COPE: A Technical Writing Guide for Engineers, 4th Ed. 2021, University of New Haven. As a librettist, David collaborated with the composer Dawn Sonntag to complete in 2022 Clara: A Life and Death in Shadow, an opera in three acts about the life of Clara Haber. See less
