Ghost Variations
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Ghost Variations

Poems

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Ghost Variations

Poems

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Elton 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."

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780822990253
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Wounded Elocution
  7. Crepuscule
  8. Couplets from Late March
  9. First Anniversary
  10. Cheap Weekend in Another Country
  11. Apparitions in April
  12. Souvenirs
  13. Song of the South
  14. Brink of Spring
  15. Entrance
  16. Reversing the Flow
  17. Origin Myth
  18. Tutorial
  19. Hooftaps
  20. The Fifties from the Back Row
  21. The Great Depression
  22. Sepia Mississippi
  23. Essence and Shadow
  24. Death Wish
  25. My Own Personal Jesus
  26. Missing in the Sunburnt Season
  27. Press the Button to Hear the Word
  28. Succession
  29. At Santa Maria in Cosmedin
  30. Coming or Going
  31. Entropy
  32. At Hadrian’s Villa
  33. For My Newborn Grandson
  34. On an Album of Italian Photographs
  35. Mercury in the Tall Degrees
  36. Florence in Flames
  37. Blessing and Hex
  38. Flaws and August at the Lake
  39. Vanishings
  40. Perpetual Afternoon on the Patio
  41. En Plein Air
  42. Rented Days in the Poconos
  43. Hazards and Grace
  44. Ye Are of More Value than Many Sparrows
  45. Blade
  46. Dahlias in Akron
  47. Getting There
  48. Ashes and Debris
  49. Thanksgiving Plus One
  50. Little Chisel
  51. In the Bleak Midwinter
  52. Blue Christmas
  53. Decembering
  54. Hibernal
  55. Deep Sleep in Venice
  56. Open Road Blues
  57. Rhetoric of Weather
  58. Northern Discomforts
  59. Poet in Contention with Himself
  60. Spring Wind
  61. Bride of the Adriatic
  62. Watching the Sun Go Down with Jack Daniel’s
  63. Jumble of Photographs in a Paper Bag
  64. Memento
  65. Tenth Anniversary
  66. Warming Up the Leftovers
  67. Circuits Open and Closed
  68. Ghost Variations
  69. Acknowledgments