{"product_id":"in-ghostlight-poems-paperback","title":"In Ghostlight: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRyan Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDave Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Ghostlight, \u003c\/i\u003e a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range from rural America to Italy to the Holy Land, as they chronicle the dynamism of a spiritual odyssey toward the eternal through both past and present. Wilson employs sonnets, Pindaric and ballad stanzas, alliterative hemistichs in imitation of the Anglo-Saxon, and other ancient forms to enlighten the modern experience, from smartphones and Facebook to jumbo jets, entangled in a reciprocal relationship with myths, sacred literature, and traditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRevealing that the past and the everlasting can inform the present at any given moment, \u003ci\u003eIn Ghostlight \u003c\/i\u003econveys how a vision acknowledging this dual illumination helps us understand ourselves and others in our fraught, complex era.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Wilson \u003c\/b\u003eis editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Matters\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger World;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow to Think Like a Poet;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020.\u003c\/i\u003e Raised in Georgia, he now lives in Carroll County, Maryland, and teaches at the Catholic University of America and in the University of St. Thomas-Houston's MFA program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52729207292211,"sku":"9780807181294","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bplcaQe169780807181294.webp?v=1763805395","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/in-ghostlight-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}