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Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship is a collection of poems about looking into the abyss and seeing a familiar face; loss and the private language we invent to remember. The work that comprises this chapbook was mined from the seam where the inner self touches the outer world, and so is a museum of contusions and lacerations collected over decades.
From birth we are preparing for departure from the world, but in the Anthropocene, the world is also departing from us. The signals are attenuated as we pull apart—news of each other is slow, fragmentary, and prone to misinterpretation.
Nostalgia is grief. Memory is the geography of time—we all wish we’d paid more attention in the moment, atop the peaks and in the valleys. This chapbook is about our travels by sea, by land, and by years.
From birth we are preparing for departure from the world, but in the Anthropocene, the world is also departing from us. The signals are attenuated as we pull apart—news of each other is slow, fragmentary, and prone to misinterpretation.
Nostalgia is grief. Memory is the geography of time—we all wish we’d paid more attention in the moment, atop the peaks and in the valleys. This chapbook is about our travels by sea, by land, and by years.
46 pages, Unknown Binding
Published June 1, 2024
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About the author
Robert J. Howe
9 books5 followersRobert J. Howe’s poetry has appeared in The Tampa Review, The California Quarterly, 50 Haiku, Punch Drunk Press, Serving House Journal, the Loch Raven Review, Main Street Rag, and several other publications.
He has published short fiction in Salon.com, the magazines Analog, The Flatbush Review, Electric Velocipede, Black Gate, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and the anthologies Newer York and Happily Ever After, among other publications. He is the editor, with John Ordover, of Coney Island Wonder Stories.
Howe is a graduate of Brooklyn College, B.A., journalism and history; Clarion Writer’s Workshop at Michigan State University; and Fairfield University, M.F.A., fiction and poetry.
He has published short fiction in Salon.com, the magazines Analog, The Flatbush Review, Electric Velocipede, Black Gate, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and the anthologies Newer York and Happily Ever After, among other publications. He is the editor, with John Ordover, of Coney Island Wonder Stories.
Howe is a graduate of Brooklyn College, B.A., journalism and history; Clarion Writer’s Workshop at Michigan State University; and Fairfield University, M.F.A., fiction and poetry.
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