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Ghost Work

by (author) Robert Colman

Publisher
Palimpsest Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2024
Category
Canadian, Death, Family
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781990293627
    Publish Date
    Feb 2024
    List Price
    $21.95

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Description

How do we redefine the self when memory begins to deteriorate?

 

This question is at the heart of Ghost Work, a suite of poems that explores a son's gradual loss of his father from dementia. In compassionate, well-crafted pantoums, triolets, ghazals, and sonnets, Rob Colman probes family connection, digging into the liminal space memory preserves between our natural and built environments. Ghost Work is at once a tribute to a lost family member, and a testament to the fragility of the human condition.

About the author

Robert Colman is a writer and editor based in Newmarket, Ontario, whose work has been published in literary magazines across Canada. His first full-length collection of poems, The Delicate Line (Exile Editions, 2009), was nominated for the ReLit Award.

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