Ghost Guest Poems
Ghost Guest Poems by Rachel Hadas is a collection published by Ragged Sky Press in 2023, featuring 90 pages of poetry in English. This edition explores themes of memory, art, and the complexities of teaching, as the author reflects on what is essential and enduring in life.
Readers will find a series of poems that transition from personal memories to elegies, offering meditations on various subjects, including mythology and the nature of poetry itself. The collection presents a blend of dreamy imagery and precise language, capturing both celebration and the awareness of mortality. Through these valedictory poems, Hadas articulates the intangible aspects of existence that she chooses to hold onto.
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“What is there I will not let go?” asks the introductory poem in Ghost Guest. With effortless authority, Rachel Hadas’s new collection keeps answering that question. Memories of places and people segue to elegies, which lead to meditations on art and poetry, mythology and, especially, teaching. Dreamy yet precise, celebratory yet attuned to mortality, these valedictory poems tell us exactly what crucial and intangible things Rachel Hadas will not let go.
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