Dear Weather Ghost (Stahlecker Selections) - Softcover

Ginsburg, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935536303 ISBN 13: 9781935536307

Publisher: Four Way Books, 2013

Synopsis

Built around an epistolary sequence, “The Weather Ghost Letters,” this collection presents images―animals, the elements, landscapes―as vehicles for exploring exile. “A road drifts all over our country,” Ginsburg writes, and the speakers of these poems drift, too―spiritually and physically. We experience this unmoored journey through tight, lyrical pieces that use simple, often coy language.

About this title

About the Author:

MELISSA GINSBURG is the author of Arbor, a chapbook published by New Michigan Press. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Jubilat, Forklift Ohio, Pleiades, and other magazines. She teaches creative writing at the University of Mississippi and edits the literary magazine Yalobusha Review.

Review:

“Melissa Ginsburg’s poems are delicate but they are not fragile. . . . This book is a subtly beautiful address to the air, and it approaches the transformative.” (Mark Levine)

“. . . Ginsburg’s poems describe a world as complex and surprising as any. . . . A tremendous debut.” (Mary Ruefle)

About this edition

• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935536303
• ISBN 13: 9781935536307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76