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Ghosts!

by Martine Bellen

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Poetry. "Contemporary poems on the ancient past have to be ghosts. They are dragged through the inscriptions of strangers until they become something ethereal and gray. And in that spectral light, as we know, colors become brighter as if shining from rain. This is how I read these poems and find them fresh"&Fanny Howe.… (more)
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Not satisfied with making us phantom observers, Bellen situates us directly in the center of her poems while emphasizing that the best questions (and the best lines of poetry) remain open and, like the ghosts themselves, unresolved.
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Poetry. "Contemporary poems on the ancient past have to be ghosts. They are dragged through the inscriptions of strangers until they become something ethereal and gray. And in that spectral light, as we know, colors become brighter as if shining from rain. This is how I read these poems and find them fresh"&Fanny Howe.

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