Gravesend

Volume 36
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27317-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 96 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 143 g

Reihe: New California Poetry

“Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face” (p. 65)

The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society’s actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swensen, Cole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

One: Have you ever seen a ghost?
Echo Body

If

Sometimes the Ghost

Etymology

A Ghost

He Who Was

Varieties of Ghost

Ajar

The Ghost Is in Itself

The End of Antiquity

According to Scripture

More Miracula

Going Home

The Hellequin’s Hunt

Who Only Living

The Gesta

The Ghost Story

History

What Ghosts

Interview Series 1

Walking Through

A Face

Toward the End

The Beginnings of the Modern Era

Fairy Tale

Two: How did Gravesend get its name?
Ghost Stories

A Good Friend

Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman

Some Paintings of Ghosts

Some Ghosts in Paintings

Gravesend

Gravesend

Gravesend

Interview Series 2

Pocahontas (1595, Powhatan Confederacy—1616, Gravesend, England)

The Ghost Dance

The Name

Engraved

Kent

Three: What do you think a ghost is?
Cicatrice

Ghosts in the Sun

Whole Ghost

Traveling Ghost

Crowds

And Are Ghosts

Interview Series 3

Old Wives’ Tales

Freud Claims

Some Chinese Ghosts

Across

Ghosts

Who Did

After This Death There Will Be No Other

Haint Blue

One No

How a Ghost Might Age

Who Walked

The Ghost Orchid

Acknowledgments

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Cole Swensen is the author of twelve previous books of poetry, including the acclaimed Ours (UC Press). She is also coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry and teaches in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University.