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Paula Cisewski guides us through a landscape that resonates with the fugitive and far-gone, the ghosts of what Whitman calls our "go-befores." A brother vanishes, and gives rise to a second city of the mind, in which "the dead and the missing" remain citizens, in which Keats's negative capability is the sheriff in town. Cisewski constructs a swaggering, tender, Carneyesque Fargo of the mind ("Do we love Heaven more than God?"), a place that relentlessly arrests and releases our loved ones. This is a book of poems that fares forever forward, quixotic, in the fullest sense of the word: picaresque, curious, errant, and hilarious. In a midwestern odyssey at once metaphysical and emphatically real, Cisewski confronts (as Nancy Cunard once wrote) "every windmill in a landscape of windmills."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Ghost Fargo
• Author: Paula Cisewski
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780982264577
• ISBN: 9780982264577
• ID: 06335396
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Weight: 159 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2010

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