{"product_id":"interview-with-a-ghost-tom-sleigh-9781555974404","title":"Interview with a Ghost: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book of inventive prose by a poet whose writing \"refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution\" (Seamus Heaney)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI: What do the dead think about, anyway?\u003cbr\u003eG: For me, it's questions of realism, I mean what's more real than the body once you don't have one?\u003c\/i\u003e --from \"Interview with a Ghost\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInterview with a Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from his conviction that \"while art and life are separable, they aren't separate.\" These essays explore issues of selfhood that are often assumed but not adequately confronted by contemporary poetry--namely, subjectivity and its limits, what it means to employ the first person in a poem, the elusive \"I\" with all of its freighted aesthetic and psychological implications. The works of poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Lowell, Thom Gunn, and Frank Bidart are examined, as are Sleigh's own poems in the contexts of history and private life, disease and health, the realm of the spirit and the realm of the day to day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne essay imagines the poet delivering a lecture, followed by a reception full of jokes and asides; another essay becomes a wild extended parable about the avant-garde; the title piece, in the form of an interview, interrogates the poetic soul, after the body has passed on. In a style that suits the subject of the multiplicity of the self, \u003ci\u003eInterview with a Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e establishes a new way for thinking and writing about poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Sleigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555974406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555974404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2006 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2006 pg. 94","brand":"Tom Sleigh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087648538879,"sku":"9781555974404","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea68780c-911e-4fe4-9969-98b7d5b16eeb.jpg?v=1753850424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/interview-with-a-ghost-tom-sleigh-9781555974404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}