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Overview"A debut poetry collection centered on strained family relationships and the search for new homes. Erica Reid's debut collection, Ghost Man on Second, traces a daughter's search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents. Reid writes, ""It's hard to feel at home unless I'm aching."" Growing from this sense of isolation, Reid's poems create new homes in nature, in mythology, and in poetic forms—including sestinas, sonnets, and golden shovels—containers that create and hold new realizations and vantage points. Reid stands up to members of her family, asking for healing amid dissolving bonds. These poems move through emotional registers, embodying nostalgia, hurt, and hope. Throughout Ghost Man on Second, the poems portray Reid's active grappling with home and confrontation with the ghosts she finds there. Ghost Man on Second is the winner of the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Mark Jarman." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erica ReidPublisher: Autumn House Press Imprint: Autumn House Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.172kg ISBN: 9781637680810ISBN 10: 1637680813 Pages: 88 Publication Date: 29 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsDisorder Five-Story House After Rain Sestina Obbligato Invitation Duplex for the Noonday Demon Shake a man, when you can, by his ribs. Pelt Why Is My Angel So Small? The Letter My Father Never Wrote Me Turns Up in a Bag of Lost Mail from 1861 Links Daguerreo Father as Ghost or Sheep or Nothing Wake-Up Call The Earth Has Hiked Her Skirt Shucking Emily Colorado Cottonwoods portent The National Register of Champion Trees When I Say I Am Not a Morning Person Deciduous Nivôse Preface Owl Hermitage Spinnaker The Pivot of the River Duck North Shields Ponds If Ever There Were a Time for a Long Title This Would Be It My Womb as a Room on Airbnb O For a Muse On Fire Baubo Smash Room The Drive-In Movie Strings The Artificial Ceiling My Grandmother Cannot Understand Why I Would Want to Hear Her Birth Story The Getaway Car Part of Me Hurtling Toward Ghazal Flying SoloReviews“Ghost Man on Second gives us grief and endurance, loss and joy, transmuted by the play of verse and imagination into poetry. Its thematic concerns deal with an absent father, suggested by the book’s title, the troubles and determination of a young mother alone, and how these conditions have affected their child. Dilemmas, hurts, yearnings, and elusive retrievals are magically changed by the poet’s sophisticated technical skill into living poems, works of art that invite reading and rereading. New forms, like the duplex, and old, like the sonnet sequence, offer us strong feeling and fresh wisdom and the remembered sense that these have always been what we expect from well-wrought poems. As the poet implies in one of her best, what is behind and above the artificial ceiling are forgotten depths of space and light. And the aim of our imaginary self wandering the world is eventually to make it home.” -- Mark Jarman, judge for the Donald Justice Poetry Prize """Ghost Man on Second gives us grief and endurance, loss and joy, transmuted by the play of verse and imagination into poetry. Its thematic concerns deal with an absent father, suggested by the book's title, the troubles and determination of a young mother alone, and how these conditions have affected their child. Dilemmas, hurts, yearnings, and elusive retrievals are magically changed by the poet's sophisticated technical skill into living poems, works of art that invite reading and rereading. New forms, like the duplex, and old, like the sonnet sequence, offer us strong feeling and fresh wisdom and the remembered sense that these have always been what we expect from well-wrought poems. As the poet implies in one of her best, what is behind and above the artificial ceiling are forgotten depths of space and light. And the aim of our imaginary self wandering the world is eventually to make it home.""--Mark Jarman, judge for the Donald Justice Poetry Prize" Author InformationErica Reid grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she works in arts marketing and serves as assistant editor at THINK Journal. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Rattle, Birmingham Poetry Review, the Inflectionist Review, the MacGuffin, Santa Fe Literary Review, Broadsided Press, Foothill, Able Muse, the Lyric, Yalobusha Review, Tiny Seed, and others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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