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Winner of the 2025 Grayson Books Poetry Contest, Ghost Hunting Glaciers delves into lives human, animal, historical, and elemental. In these poems, the ancient world seems very alive within the present landscape, and the natural world speaks to all who will listen.With lyric precision the poet explores ways of accepting and understanding what is in the process of disappearing, as experienced by Black Bear, Dead Elk, and Swimming Stone.

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Ghost Hunting Glaciers is a radiant meditation on time, loss, and renewal. These poems move with the patience of ice and the clarity of light, listening for the histories that linger beneath the surface of the world. The poet transforms landscape into language-each line a current of memory, each image a quiet revelation. This collection does not merely describe the natural world; it converses with it, asking how we might endure beauty's slow vanishing. With precision, empathy, and vision, Ghost Hunting Glaciers stands as both elegy and invitation-a reminder that the lyric, like the glacier, reshapes everything it touches -Alberto Ríos, author of Every Sound is Not a Wolf In Ghost Hunting Glaciers, the natural world happens twice, once as we enter it with the body and once as we honor its mysteries through language and the imagination. A poem, for Garrigan, is hardwired to mythmaking, to all the characters and swervings of perception that an eco-epistemology demands. Here lies a book charged with an unapologetic appreciation for a wilderness that stirs within us all. -Michael McGriff, author of Inquest and Angel Sharpening its Beak Michael Garrigan's stunning collection Ghost Hunting Glaciers invites us to embody the bodies, minds, voices and sensory worlds of black bear, waters of ""stone swimmers,"" elk that blurs the lines of living and dead, an adventurous female speaker, and the land herself. Freed from its physical body, ""Dead Elk"" appears throughout the collection, speaking in haunting images that permeate the living world with ""wildflower lungs"" and ""his skull catching a little moonlight."" This is a poetic voice we need-Garrigan's imagery and music grows from intimate and lived knowledge of land and rivers, but also from a love that imagines into a rich sensory world far beyond a limited human perspective. Garrigan's generous and richly imagined poems are like the spirit of Dead Elk whose bones are ""planted with this final upright act;/ little lights keeping us from trampling our tenderness."" -Anne Haven McDonnell, author of Breath on Coal and Singing Under Snow

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