
Blue Ghosts
Kathryn DeZur(Author)
Finishing Line Press
Published on 2. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
42 pages
978-1-63534-968-9 (ISBN)
Description
Blue Ghosts contains poems about what haunts us, what fascinates us, what we cannot leave behind because of what we carry within: experiences, memories, emotions, and desires. The collection catalogs defining moments, those that shift everything that comes after, and the feelings accompanying them: fear, grief, envy, resentment, hope, and intense love. The poems explore how we find and make meaning out of loss, how we transform ourselves and our lives. They seek understanding and comfort-sometimes found, sometimes not-in the natural world. Through them we traverse many landscapes, both literal and metaphorical, including a small rural town, the Catskill Mountains, the desert, the hospital, the monastery, and the garden; we engage with all manner of wild life, such as crows and foxes, dandelions and phlox, bottle flies and blue ghost fireflies. The poetry resonates with an appreciation of the difficulties and the miracles of the everyday, of the ordinary, and reminds us of how we fit, how we belong, even when it feels that we do not. Each poem becomes a dewdrop containing "clouds / in reflected heavens" that medieval legend tells us ravens consumed upon being born, "drop / by / drop."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63534-968-9 (9781635349689)
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Kathryn DeZur is a Professor of English at SUNY Delhi. She has lived in rural upstate New York for two decades, and much of her imagery is drawn from that landscape. Her poems have appeared in multiple journals and poetry anthologies.