Poetry. Poems of daily diligence, attenuated to the rhythms of rural life, meet with poems of Buddhist inspired meditations on how these rhythms fit into larger life patterns in Maj Ragain's latest collection, A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX. In his hands poetry becomes that dirt road winding back home, corn tassel, fencerows, the last light fading in the top branches of a century oak, bridging solitude and community, a way to offer one's longings to the world. "Pay the bill for the water/ in which you boil the rice. The rice sustains the body./ The water"—from A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX.

Author City: KENT, OH USA

Maj Ragain is the author of numerous poetry collections and chapbooks, including A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX (Pavement Saw Press, 2005), TWIST THE AXE: A HORSEPLAYER'S STORY (Bottom Dog Press, 2002), and BURLEY ONE DARK SUCKER FIRED: COLLECTED POEMS (Bottom Dog Press, 1998).