Ghost man on second / Erica Reid.

Summary:

"Erica Reid's debut collection, Ghost Man on Second, traces a daughter's search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents. Reid writes, "It's hard to feel at home unless I'm aching." Growing from this sense of isolation, Reid's stories create new homes in nature, in mythology, and in poetic forms-including sestinas, sonnets, and golden shovels-containers that create and hold new realizations and vantage points. Reid stands up to members of her family, asking for healing amid dissolving bonds. These poems move through emotional registers, embodying nostalgia, hurt, and hope. Throughout Ghost Man on Second, the poems portray Reid's active grappling with home and confrontation with the ghosts she finds there"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 1637680813
ISBN: 9781637680810
Physical Description: 77 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Pittsburgh : Autumn House Press, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: Disorder -- Five-Story House -- After Rain -- Sestina Obbligato -- Invitation -- Duplex for the Noonday Demon -- Shake a man, when you can, by his ribs. -- Pelt -- Why Is My Angel So Small? -- The Letter My Father Never Wrote Me Turns Up in a Bag of Lost Mail from 1861 -- Links -- Daguerreo -- Father as Ghost or Sheep or Nothing -- Wake-Up Call -- The Earth Has Hiked Her Skirt -- Shucking -- Emily -- Colorado Cottonwoods -- portent -- The National Register of Champion Trees -- When I Say I Am Not a Morning Person -- Deciduous -- NivAose -- Preface -- Owl -- Hermitage -- Spinnaker -- The Pivot of the River Duck -- North Shields Ponds -- If Ever There Were a Time for a Long Title This Would Be It -- My Womb as a Room on Airbnb -- O For a Muse On Fire -- Baubo -- Smash Room -- The Drive-In Movie -- Strings -- The Artificial Ceiling -- My Grandmother Cannot Understand Why I Would Want to Hear Her Birth Story -- The Getaway Car -- Part of Me Hurtling Toward -- Ghazal Flying Solo.
Exhibitions Note:	2024 Poets House Showcase
Awards Note:	Winner of the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize