Poetry. In GHOST LIGHT, Eric Basso's fifth collection of poems, the sense of foreboding encountered in CATAFALQUES becomes a prophecy fulfilled with the force of a hammer-blow. It is a book written in the shadow of three unexpected deaths, when the poet, dazed by grief, was for a time dangerously ill himself. A stillness moves among the darkest and most searing poems Basso has ever written. Punctuated by a cycle of unsettling still lifes, GHOST LIGHT recreates a world in which death has made life stand still.
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Poetry. In GHOST LIGHT, Eric Basso's fifth collection of poems, the sense of foreboding encountered in CATAFALQUES becomes a prophecy fulfilled with the force of a hammer-blow. It is a book written in the shadow of three unexpected deaths, when the poet, dazed by grief, was for a time dangerously ill himself. A stillness moves among the darkest and most searing poems Basso has ever written. Punctuated by a cycle of unsettling still lifes, GHOST LIGHT recreates a world in which death has made life stand still.
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Add this copy of Ghost Light: Poems 1990-1994 to cart. $28.49, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Asylum Arts.
Add this copy of Ghost Light: Poems 1990-1994 to cart. $62.34, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Asylum Arts.
