Ghost Wife marks Suzanne Burns' second collaboration with Night Bomb Press with a full-length collection of poems that might be one of her strongest releases to date. The collection itself is a tightly interwoven set of sixty-three poems that cut a surreal path through the internal minefields of an infidelity. The overall result functions more like a song cycle than a simple collection of poems - the success of the individual works and their relationship with one another renders the book as a whole a complete and vital ...
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Ghost Wife marks Suzanne Burns' second collaboration with Night Bomb Press with a full-length collection of poems that might be one of her strongest releases to date. The collection itself is a tightly interwoven set of sixty-three poems that cut a surreal path through the internal minefields of an infidelity. The overall result functions more like a song cycle than a simple collection of poems - the success of the individual works and their relationship with one another renders the book as a whole a complete and vital organism. Ghost Wife is both as solid and haunting as the name implies, and further locates its author's station in the world as that of an important emerging writer.
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