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In Ghostlight: Poems

In Ghostlight: Poems

Wilson, Ryan
Smith, Dave

Paperback

Series: Southern Messenger Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0807181293
ISBN13: 9780807181294
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 31 2024
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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