Scratching the Ghost - Brossura

Booth, Dexter L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1555976603 ISBN 13: 9781555976606

Casa editrice: GRAY WOLF PR, 2013

Riassunto

Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson

The stub of your left leg dangles
as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms
like a child. You are complaining about the itch,
the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel.
—from "Scratching the Ghost"

Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history.

"In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey." —Major Jackson

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dexter L. Booth earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His poems have appeared in Amendment, Grist, New Delta Review, and Willow Springs. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: GRAY WOLF PR
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1555976603
• ISBN 13: 9781555976606
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 69
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile