{"product_id":"ghost-variations-poems-paperback","title":"Ghost Variations: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElton Glaser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist, 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry Honoree, 2024 Midland Authors Award in Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElton Glaser's ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: \"I'm learning to speak in the accents of adieu.\" As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and \"swaggering lilies,\" and a swan like \"a sullen bride in her white finery.\" With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, \"Memory without passion would be better lost.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElton Glaser\u003c\/b\u003e, a native of New Orleans, is distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron, where he also directed the University of Akron Press and edited the Akron Series in Poetry. Glaser has published ten full-length collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eSoul Patch\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2025 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. With William Greenway, he coedited \u003ci\u003eI Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Award, the \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard \u003c\/i\u003ePoetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324363608301,"sku":"9780822967194","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/wv71VTTi-W9780822967194.webp?v=1784827546","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/ghost-variations-poems-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}