Greater Ghost

In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a family member, and the specter of police brutality. With a profound awareness of literary tradition, Collier enters into the American canon and dialogues with Black Southern noir--a poem like "Beloved," whose title expresses not only a genuine tenderness in its term of endearment but invokes Morrison, contextualizes this book within the legacy of racial injustice in the U.S., presenting again the prolific losses and disproportionate Black mortality across time, and yet remembers the resilience of love and transformative possibility of self-actualization from inside tragedy.


Author: Christian J. Collier
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 09/15/2024
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781961897106
ISBN10: 1961897105
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Political & Protest