ISBN: 0-88739-064-1
416 pp.
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Paperback
Price: $12.95
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Ghosts No Horse Can Carry
Barry Gifford
This rich collection of poems is gathered from over a dozen previously published works, in addition to several new pieces. These poems have appeared in such publications as: Esquire, Poesie (Paris), California Quarterly, The Madison Review, The Baltimore Sun, Chicago Review, Twigs, Florida Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Measure and other magazines. David Bromige, in his introduction, says: "These poems comprise a story that is all Gifford's, testimony that anyone, haunted by these cultural forms, may be pleased to incur as if his or her own. This collection, made at age forty, not only sums up the early years, but clears the ground for further creation."
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Review: "These poems are solid, alive, and fully capable of teaching the reader to see better, hear more, and think differently."
-San Francisco Review of Books
"Gifford never fails to surprise. These poems are like zen dominoes: no matter how you shuffled, they always seem to come out right."
-Booklist
"Giffords spare elliptical poems, formally 'open' and underpunctuated but readily comprehensible...[reveal] the poet as a meditative, lonely observer, haunted by memory's 'ghosts' and caught in the seasonal vicisistudes of experience, with an eye for plain but evocative detail...at his best [Gifford] recalls William Carlos Williams: particular, lyrical but laconic, compassionate but unsentimental."
-Publishers Weekly
Bio: BARRY GIFFORD is the author of the novels Wild at Heart and Wyoming, among others, as well as memoirs, essays, short stories, plays and screenplays, such as Lost Highway (with David Lynch).
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