Ghost Work
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2024
- Category
- Canadian, Death, Family
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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.