{"product_id":"gravesend-cole-swensen-9780520273177","title":"Gravesend: Volume 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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520273176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520273177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist","brand":"Cole Swensen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46070234317055,"sku":"9780520273177","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4e022a0-0db5-4f7c-abd9-31892e3477da.jpg?v=1724242657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gravesend-cole-swensen-9780520273177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}