
- 72 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Call
- Heorot
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Field Work
- Sharecroppers
- Philoctetes, Long Afterward
- A Haunted House
- For a Dog
- Behind the Music
- Hesperides
- Lemons
- Days
- Windy October Night, Waterside
- The Feast of the Epiphany
- Christmas Party
- Re-Entry
- Next Up
- Velocities
- Apparition
- Vacation
- Remembrance
- Secrets
- The Rain
- 21st-Century Pastoral
- So, Westward
- Wait
- One of Many Centurions
- Wind Advisory
- Disobedience
- The Problem
- Acknowledgments and Dedications