Ghost Variations

Poems

AvElton Glaser

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Finalist, 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry | Honoree, 2024 Midland Authors Award in PoetryElton Glaser’s ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: “I’m learning to speak in the accents of adieu.” As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and “swaggering lilies,” and a swan like “a sullen bride in her white finery.” With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, “Memory without passion would be better lost.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-24
Mått:146 x 222 x 11 mm
Vikt:124 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:100
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822967194

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Elton Glaser, a native of New Orleans, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Akron, where he also directed the University of Akron Press and edited the Akron Series in Poetry. Glaser has published ten full-length collections of poetry, most recently Soul Patch, winner of the 2025 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. With William Greenway, he coedited I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (Akron, 2002). Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Award, the Crab Orchard Poetry Award, and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the 1995, 1997, and 2000 editions of The Best American Poetry. He has also won a Pushcart Prize.

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The autumnal elegies of Ghost Variations burn and coalesce with grief. But the light they give off is beautiful. For years I have suspected he is the finest living American poet. Ghost Variations confirms this.