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Ghostlier Demarcations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800957
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Richard Stuecker's Ghostlier Demarcations bears the marks of pandemic, of a consciousness moving through a world heavy with hauntings. These poems come to anchor in the land, in memory rich with its seasonal shifting, arrival of signs, philosophical questions as we move among the living and the dead. Like a film in the dream space between, the poems in Ghostlier Demarcations interrogate religious shadows, moments passing, the mirror maze of the everyday woven into the mystery, and ultimately, the artform itself into which the poet vanishes.
- Doug Cole
The poems of Ghostlier Demarcations search for the still point beneath which great movement occurs - a moment in an experienced life when we always turn / toward where we come from, / against chill reminiscence / rising less and less, more and more / we lock the door to still the night. Here we find the importance in the immediacy of simple but deep connections, such as friendships made and sustained over coffee, the passing of a mother, the daily reacquaintance with a neighborhood turned stranger. In a meditative approach, Stuecker seeks a more direct and eternal connection with the world through mediums such as memory and the contemplation of Mark Rothko paintings. These poems search for a sustainable resolution to such contradictions in a time when death looms ever larger: Death quickens my search / for connection to compassion: all in this moment / a possibility, a promise to lift us like blue herons, / wide wings spread against the sun.
- Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
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