Ghost Forest: Poems

All manner of ghosts haunt the poems in Jack Bedell's new collection, GHOST FOREST. From memories of lost loved ones, to the ghosts of heroes, to the remnants of an eroding coastline, these spectres fill Bedell's lines with beauty and wisdom to help us all move into the future. Sometimes through memory, sometimes through visitation, sometimes through pure fantasy, Bedell's poems invoke spirits to help us see the world as it needs to be seen, or put back whole our broken pasts to make moving forward possible. No matter if it's Sonny Liston in need of a moment's peace, a ghost forest glowing as harbinger of what's headed our way, or old habits left to us by family we've lost come back around on the breeze to make their souls present in this world, GHOST FOREST takes time, page by page, to pay its due respects.

Author: Jack B. Bedell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 02/01/2024
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9780881469189
ISBN10: 0881469181
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Jack B. Bedell is professor of English and coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are AGAINST THE WOODS' DARK TRUNKS, COLOR ALL MAPS NEW, and NO BROTHER, THIS STORM. Bedell served as Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2017-2019.