In the Ghost-House Acquainted

By Kevin Goodan

Book Overview

These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit. Here, the specter of loss makes a world... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295471
• ISBN13: 9781882295470
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, Masculine and Masterful Poetry

I don't find myself ranking items too often with 5 stars, but this collection of poems was the first one in a while to draw me back into the wonder of poetry. Goodan has a masterful style. He takes the natural world and turns it into his own religion. These poems have animals giving birth, address the beauty of llamas and delve into the soul of the farmer, the rancher, the man. If there is anything negative to say it is this: the first 25 pages are very strong with stunning lines and musicality, but the poems between about page 26 and 40 are nice but don't jump off the page the way the early poems do and those that close out the book. I am going to quote here a few lines that just stuck with me from "If I'm Not a Garden" : ... If I'm not a garden, / but a shadow pleading for stone, / rock, tree, or standing wall to cast against / in order not to vanish, / what then? . . . I think this collection could have a wide audience and would be a great one to present to the men in your lives. These are poems that are beautiful, masculine and masterful.

poems with music & spiritual depth

These are beautiful, serious, spare, musical lyrics, with a deeply attractive poetic sensibility.