{"product_id":"gravesend-36-9780520273177","title":"Gravesend, 36","description":"\"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face\" (p. 65)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eGravesend\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cole Swensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520273177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twelve previous books of poetry, including the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eOurs\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press). She is also coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and teaches in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40012024512627,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_44dcba7b-5fec-493b-88c4-80362ec3029f.jpg?v=1650491595","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gravesend-36-9780520273177","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}