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9780807181294 Academic Inspection Copy

In Ghostlight

Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780807181294
  • Publisher: LSU PRESS
    Imprint: LSU PRESS
  • By Ryan Wilson, Series edited by Dave Smith
  • Price: AUD $46.99
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  • Local release date: 30/04/2024
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 272g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]Fiction: special features [FY]
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In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range from rural America to Italy to the Holy Land, as they chronicle the dynamism of a spiritual odyssey toward the eternal through both past and present. Wilson employs sonnets, Pindaric and ballad stanzas, alliterative hemistichs in imitation of the Anglo-Saxon, and other ancient forms to enlighten the modern experience, from smartphones and Facebook to jumbo jets, entangled in a reciprocal relationship with myths, sacred literature, and traditions. Revealing that the past and the everlasting can inform the present at any given moment, In Ghostlight conveys how a vision acknowledging this dual illumination helps us understand ourselves and others in our fraught, complex era.
Ryan Wilson is editor-in-chief of Literary Matters and author of The Stranger World; How to Think Like a Poet; and Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020. Raised in Georgia, he now lives in Carroll County, Maryland, and teaches at the Catholic University of America and in the University of St. Thomas-Houston's MFA program.
These are brilliantly clear poems to read and read again, poems to study and to love. Few American poets working in rhyme and meter today could write poems to match them." - Shane McCrae "I have been waiting for a poet like Ryan Wilson, an unapologetic formalist whose metrical agility is precise and varied, and whose uncamouflaged rhymes unleash an intelligence that is at once wild and sensible." - Rodney Jones "In Ghostlight is a major book. With it, Wilson places himself among the best poets of his generation." - Dana Gioia
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