On Ghosts

Robinson, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0984414266 / ISBN 13: 9780984414260

Published by Solid Objects, New York, 2013

About this Item

8vo, 57 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Seller Inventory # 112711

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Ghosts
• Publisher: Solid Objects, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984414266
• ISBN 13: 9780984414260
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Poetry. "This book is continuing a tradition of Neo-Spiritualist literature in America where the poem is the means of divination. The poem is a map of a world where ghosts and unattributed thinkers and writers haunt and intrude and give signals to the world next to us. This is an occupation for all poets, the most secular to the most conceptual and the most experiential and spontaneous. If words appear in prose here in these pages, they are still the production of a New Spiritualist poet who feels the presences and wants to tell us about them."—Fanny Howe

"Elizabeth Robinson's ON GHOSTS returns us to the haunted aura around words. Here, a crossing of genres—poetry, prose meditation, personal testimony—shows that language itself amounts to a gathering of ghosts. Robinson's oblique lyricism beckons us toward a twilight zone where we become 'witness to the unverifiable.' This is writing as the highest form of bewitching."—Andrew Joron

About the Author

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of 16 books, most recently Rumor from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. She has been the winner of the National Poetry Series for Pure Descent (Sun & Moon), and the Fence Modern Poets Prize for Apprehend. Robinson's mixed genre meditation, On Ghosts, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.