If You Have Ghosts

Download or read book If You Have Ghosts written by John Pursley and published by Zone 3 Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Graceful, tensile, and electric, IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS is a haunting and haunted book. John Pursley III's prodigious gifts for metaphor, imagery, and an elliptical narrative reminiscent of Larry Levis are amply displayed in this guide through liquid time. We encounter a fire that 'sounded like my mother snapping sheets / Onto the bed as they came out of the dryer, ' Chet Baker's 'androgynous melody' that is 'like the false-front store / that never closes, & fools no one, ' a lollipop dropped by a child in an airport that explodes 'in a confusion of ruby shards.' Empathetically felt, played out in a deeply nuanced syntax, these poems both reveal and complicate our troubled, troubling world"--Beth Ann Fennelly.