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The body ghost: poems

By Joseph , Lease

Book information

Publisher
Coffee House Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781566895118, 9781566895200, 1566895111
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (10842902 bytes)
Pages
83 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Poetry

Description

In this "spare, evocative" collection of poems from the prize-winning author of Testify, "both hope and despair are evident amid [the] music" (Publishers Weekly). "Promise me the rich can't sleep," Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. The title work, which is "broken up into three separate poems, underlines the common thread weaved throughout his collection, the search for a silver lining amongst hardships" (Fourteen Hills). "Electric and electrifying, spontaneous and illuminating," these poems conjure up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the strength of all that connect us (Tablet).

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