Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

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Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

"Pretend that these poems by Lawrence Raab have come to you from very far away. Think of them as written by Poet Z, a heretofore-unheard-of Eastern European poet, a Kafka-Andrade-Calvino character from Serbo-Chechnya-Lithuania.
What's in his poems? Angels and human monsters, decades and generations, universities turned into ashes, the consolation of philosophy, despair in the middle of the night, a tutorial in lucid dreaming.
Only his poetic humor gives away his American citizenship. His poems lead you into, then trap you, in strange worlds, boxes constructed of story, logic, and aphorism, which then are revealed to be exactly like life itself.
Now, these poems by Z have finally been translated into an American idiom that is canny, sly, defeated, pessimistic, resilient, and perplexingly knowledgeable about the human predicament. They are also often beautiful, bewildered, disquieting, and full of paradoxical laughter and contemplative solace. Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts is a tender, lonely, deeply intelligent tour of that distinctive country of the soul." -- Tony Hoagland, author of Twenty Poems That Could Save America

Country USA
Author Lawrence Raab
Binding Paperback
EAN 9781936797653
ISBN 1936797658
Label Tupelo Press, Inc.
Manufacturer Tupelo Press, Inc.
NumberOfPages 84
PublicationDate 2015-09-01
Publisher Tupelo Press, Inc.
Studio Tupelo Press, Inc.
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Author	Lawrence Raab
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781936797653
ISBN	1936797658
Label	Tupelo Press, Inc.
Manufacturer	Tupelo Press, Inc.
NumberOfPages	84
PublicationDate	2015-09-01
Publisher	Tupelo Press, Inc.
Studio	Tupelo Press, Inc.
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

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