Gravesend

By: Cole Swensen

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Paperback | 9 July 2012 | Edition Number 1

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96 Pages

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Gravesend, which takes its name from of the English town at the mouth of the Thames, revisits the genre of the ghost story and, through fragmentation, juxtaposition, and allusion, powerfully summons the uncanny, the spectral presence. Cole Swensen delves into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more to explore the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of "gravesend," implicitly asking if it all ends in the grave, or if, on the other hand, death itself has an end. Swensen's focus on language shapes these visitations--glimpses of the supernatural or intuitions of the afterlife in all its mystery--allowing readers to ponder such eternal questions further or simply to experience the frisson that accompanies the perception of a ghost or the reading of a poem.

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"A book-length meditation on ghosts and ghost stories in Swensen's haunting style." Publishers Weekly "It is poetry that honestly admits the inchoate, affirms mystery and responds to successive readings: it is alive." The Volta

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