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In the Ghost-House Acquainted

By Goodan, Kevin

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These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit. Here, the specter of loss makes a world more precious-notions of home and love must be ever-evolving as colts are stillborn and pigeons slaughtered, apple blossoms frozen in spring and dead lambs burned in diesel fire. But, these poems insist, there is beauty in the soil and beauty in birth-and death in birth, and beauty in death, as well.Kevin Goodan received his BA from the University of Montana and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His poems have been -published in Ploughshares and other journals.

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978-1-88229-547-0
Publisher
Alice James Books


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Reviewed on August 15, 2004

Rural, or more approximately farm, life is the focus of this fine debut collection. Goodan, who was raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana and has been published in Ploughshares , uses straightforward and constant symbols--horses, birds, fire, rain, trees, and llamas (yes, llamas)--in his simple, laid-back, and yet elegantly ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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