03581nam 2200961 a 450 991079011570332120200520144314.01-280-49219-897866135874280-520-95240-510.1525/9780520952409(CKB)2670000000180172(EBL)902581(OCoLC)792688116(SSID)ssj0000636044(PQKBManifestationID)11403914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000636044(PQKBWorkID)10660036(PQKB)10438161(MiAaPQ)EBC902581(DE-B1597)519598(DE-B1597)9780520952409(Au-PeEL)EBL902581(CaPaEBR)ebr10556484(CaONFJC)MIL358742(EXLCZ)99267000000018017220111007d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGravesend[electronic resource] /Cole SwensenBerkeley University of California Press20121 online resource (97 p.)New California poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-27317-6 Frontmatter -- Contents -- One: Have you ever seen a ghost? -- Two: How did Gravesend get its name? -- Three: What do you think a ghost is? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society's actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase.New California poetry.American poetryadvanced poetry.book club reads.books by women.books for poetry lovers.complex poems.discussion books.easy to read.edge of your seat.engaging.european expansion.european history.ghost poems.ghosts.gothic.historical.history and poetry.how to write a poem.learning while reading.leisure reads.page turner.paranormal.pass on books.poetry books.poetry techniques.pre 21st century.stories with poems.suspense.suspenseful poems.understanding poetry.vacation books.western world history.American poetry.811/.54Swensen Cole1955-1484131MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790115703321Gravesend3702667UNINA