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Scratching the Ghost: Poems

Scratching the Ghost: Poems

Scratching the Ghost: Poems
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Scratching the Ghost: Poems Paperback - 2013

by Dexter L. Booth

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  • Title Scratching the Ghost: Poems
  • Author Dexter L. Booth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Condition New
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press, Minneapolis
  • Publication date 2013-11
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # N00N-02798
  • ISBN 9781555976606 / 1555976603
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.01 x 0.29 in (22.99 x 15.27 x 0.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 21st century, American poetry - African American authors
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013939554
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

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From the publisher

Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson

The stub of your left leg dangles
as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms
like a child. You are complaining about the itch,
the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel.
--from "Scratching the Ghost"

Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history.

"In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey." --Major Jackson

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2013, Page 9
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2013, Page 104
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/23/2013, Page 0

About the author

Dexter L. Booth earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His poems have appeared in Amendment, Grist, New Delta Review, and Willow Springs. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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