{"product_id":"scratching-the-ghost-poems-1555976603","title":"Scratching the Ghost: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1555976603\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Booth, Dexter L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major JacksonThe stub of your left leg danglesas I hold you up, my hands inserted under your armslike 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67886141145376,"sku":"NEW1555976603","price":18.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81OZy820uyL.jpg?v=1792519476","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/scratching-the-ghost-poems-1555976603","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}