Ghost, like a place : poems / Iain Haley Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollock, Iain Haley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--21st century.

American literature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

101 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2018]

Summary:

"Highlights the complexities of fatherhood and of raising young kids while bearing witness to the charged movements against social injustice and the inequities of race in America. Memory, culpability, and our very humanness course through this book and strip us down to find joy and inspiration amid the darkness."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Ghost

We, the Rubber Men p. 5

Violets for Your Furs p. 6

Never Drink a Six-Pack in Sight of Jesus (If You Want to Keep Your Faith) p. 8

Dates & Inscriptions p. 10

Grasping at Swallow's Tail p. 12

The smoke of the country went up p. 14

Whatever wilderness contained there p. 15

II Place

Brewerytown p. 19

The Road Will Be My Last Idea p. 20

Baldheaded Woman's Burlesque p. 22

Prayer to Be a Vessel of Mercy Expressed as a Newtonian Equation p. 23

Constellations of Our Own Making p. 26

Indian & Colored Burial Ground p. 28

III Sound

Arrival: Troy, New York p. 31

Cambridge Street Midden p. 33

Liver of Sulfur p. 35

Hysterikos p. 37

Miraculum Vitae p. 38

Our Lady of Consolation p. 39

California Penal Code 484 p. 40

Dem kill my mama p. 42

When mud daubers nest p. 43

IV Ghost

An Old Country p. 47

On the Migration of Black Oystermen from Snow Hill, Maryland to Sandy Ground, Staten Island p. 48

A Lament, from Greener Territories, for the Row House p. 50

The Changing Table p. 51

Hurricane Season p. 53

Topography (inland) p. 54

Love, oh love, oh careless love p. 55

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? p. 57

The Overworld p. 59

V Place

The Properties of Solid Phase Materials p. 63

To Know Its Taste p. 65

The fig that, as it falls p. 66

Squall p. 68

The Field p. 70

Blue Jay Restaurant (29th & Girard) p. 72

Fountain of the Three Rivers p. 74

VI Sound

Tamir Rice p. 77

Aubade p. 79

Black Cock p. 80

Autumn: Far Field, New Moon p. 82

Boxwood p. 83

GameStop p. 84

Magritte's Pipe p. 85

Not on the sea, not on the sea p. 87

Day 5 (Sunday): lay thou thy basis sure p. 88

VI Ghost / Place / Sound

Ghost / Place / Sound (This one's for you, Rex) p. 91.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Pollock, Iain Haley, author. Ghost, like a place

ISBN:

9781938584954

1938584953

OCLC:

1022776021