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Gravesend
Cole Swensen
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Description for Gravesend
Paperback. Delving into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more, this title explores the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of gravesend, implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 149 x 8. Weight in Grams: 146.
"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65) The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society's actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, ... Read more
"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65) The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society's actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
New California Poetry
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273177
SKU
V9780520273177
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About Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of twelve previous books of poetry, including the acclaimed Ours (UC Press). She is also coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry and teaches in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University.
Reviews for Gravesend
"A book-length meditation on ghosts and ghost stories in Swensen's haunting style." Publishers Weekly "It is poetry that honestly admits the inchoate, affirms mystery and responds to successive readings: it is alive." The Volta