Gravesend
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Gravesend

Cole Swensen

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Gravesend

Cole Swensen

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About This Book

"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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780520952409
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Gravesend
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. ONE: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST?
  8. TWO: HOW DID GRAVESEND GET ITS NAME?
  9. THREE: WHAT DO TOU THINK A GHOST IS?
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Notes
Citation styles for Gravesend

APA 6 Citation

Swensen, C. (2012). Gravesend (1st ed.). University of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/550881/gravesend-pdf (Original work published 2012)

Chicago Citation

Swensen, Cole. (2012) 2012. Gravesend. 1st ed. University of California Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/550881/gravesend-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Swensen, C. (2012) Gravesend. 1st edn. University of California Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/550881/gravesend-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Swensen, Cole. Gravesend. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2012. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.