Only the Ghost has Lasted.
Title:
Only the Ghost has Lasted.
Author:
Dembowski, Nancy.
ISBN:
9781897414750
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (94 pages)
Contents:
Only the Ghost has Lasted -- Living with Shirley in Georgetown -- Despite Everything -- The Other Night -- Sweets -- It Wasn't Until Later -- Tenor Sax -- Ghosts -- Trash -- If Only I'd Known -- Mirror Writing -- Never -- Saint John the Baptist: 7:30 -- Abstractions of Atlantic City -- Fragment -- PlusZero -- Alien -- Spectres of the Historical Subsconscious -- A Picture of You -- That Summer of 1990 -- For Me -- Peace, Love & Dope -- Talking to John -- Dear John -- Collateral Damage -- Bookmaking -- Anything -- Virginia Peace Officer Spring 1997 -- Fences -- Seventy-Six -- Dark Chocolate Ice Cream -- Autumn's Surrender -- Life on Venus Avenue -- You'll Never Get Them Both in Bed -- My Brother's Daughter -- I was just thinking -- Avant-Garde Immigrants Capture Organ Grinder Beauty Queen & Pope -- Signs.
Abstract:
The poems in Nancy Dembowski's second collection are a series of tender, yet slightly morbid epistles written for the purpose of saying good-bye to a relationship, lifestyle or country. Underscored by a tone of resignation, the poems come alive in flashes of angry revenge - bordering on the absurd - together with tenderness and joy. Dembowski's poems, while written in a traditional Canadian story-telling manner, scratch the surface of the underbelly of America's dysfunction. This is the voice of an immigrant lost and alone somewhere between an urban trailer park in the deep south and a Tory election office in Ontario.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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