Poetry. In GHOST LIGHT, Eric Basso's fifth collection of poems, the sense of foreboding encountered in CATAFALQUES becomes a prophecy fulfilled with the force of a hammer-blow. It is a book written in the shadow of three unexpected deaths, when the poet, dazed by grief, was for a time dangerously ill himself. A stillness moves among the darkest and most searing poems Basso has ever written. Punctuated by a cycle of unsettling still lifes, GHOST LIGHT recreates a world in which death has made life stand still.
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