Gil Adamson Books in Order

Adamson’s poetry explores family tensions and the freedom of the road through images of cars, sex, sleeplessness, and restless middle-class surroundings. Brief, sharply observed scenes move between intimate experience and a more detached, cinematic view of everyday life.

Hazel and her brother Andrew grow up among relatives united by their eccentric behavior. Linked stories trace a young woman’s coming of age through an unusual family whose strange habits mingle affection, comedy and unsettling discoveries.

This account traces Gillian Anderson’s life from childhood and rebellious adolescence to her role as Dana Scully. Biographical material, interviews and an episode guide examine her career and the character that brought her international recognition.

In 1903, nineteen-year-old Mary Boulton flees into the wilderness after killing her husband. Pursued by his vengeful brothers and bloodhounds, she encounters strangers while struggling to survive the landscape and the turmoil of her own mind.

In 1917, an aging thief returns to crime to secure his son’s future. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Jack escapes the strict nun entrusted with his care, taking something she is determined to recover as their journeys unfold across the mountain West.

These poems move through imagined frontiers, unsettling histories and landscapes haunted by violence. Shifting between prose poems, lyrics and portraits, Adamson explores the strange proximity of beauty, death and the stories people create to contain their fears.