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Gravesend.
Title:
Gravesend.
Author:
Swensen, Cole.
ISBN:
9780520952409
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (97 pages)
Series:
New California Poetry ; v.36

New California Poetry
Contents:
Cover -- Gravesend -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ONE: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST? -- Echo Body -- If -- Sometimes the Ghost -- Etymology -- A Ghost -- He Who Was -- Varieties of Ghost -- Ajar -- The Ghost Is in Itself -- The End of Antiquity -- According to Scripture -- More Miracula -- Going Home -- The Hellequin's Hunt -- The Gesta -- Who Only Living -- The Ghost Story -- History -- What Ghosts -- Interview Series 1 -- Walking Through -- A Face -- Toward the End -- The Beginnings of the Modern Era -- Fairy Tale -- TWO: HOW DID GRAVESEND GET ITS NAME? -- Ghost Stories -- A Good Friend -- Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman -- Some Paintings of Ghosts -- Some Ghosts in Paintings -- Gravesend -- Gravesend -- Gravesend -- Interview Series 2 -- Pocahontas (1595, Powhatan Confederacy-1616, Gravesend, England) -- The Ghost Dance -- The Name -- Engraved -- Kent -- THREE: WHAT DO TOU THINK A GHOST IS? -- Cicatrice -- Ghosts in the Sun -- Whole Ghost -- Traveling Ghost -- Crowds -- And Are Ghosts -- Interview Series 3 -- Old Wives' Tales -- Freud Claims -- Some Chinese Ghosts -- Across -- Ghosts -- Who Did -- After This Death There Will Be No Other -- Haint Blue -- One No -- How Might a Ghost Age -- Who Walked -- The Ghost Orchid -- Acknowledgements -- Notes.
Abstract:
"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.
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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