In this “spare, evocative” collection of poems from the prize-winning author of Testify, “both hope and despair are evident amid [the] music” (Publishers Weekly). “Promise me the rich can’t sleep, ” Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. The title work, which is “broken up into three separate poems, underlines the common thread weaved throughout his collection, the search for a silver lining amongst hardships” (Fourteen Hills). “Electric and electrifying, spontaneous and illuminating, ” these poems conjure up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the strength of all that connect us (Tablet).
Over de auteur
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include
The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, forthcoming in 2018),
Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and
Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
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