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Title: Ghost Songs
Author : William Pettit
Release Date : January 31, 2009
Genre: Poetry,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1723 KB

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"Ghost Songs" by William Pettit is a collection of evocative yet fleeting poems on the failure and promise of language, love, and faith. They are seasonal meditations on the landscape and on joy and grief. They falter and hesitate, they object and accept. In moment and in verse, the poems of William Pettit are intimate and immediate. The reader falls into a desperate grasp at what’s just passed, putting him or her precisely in the poet’s predicament. And what has just passed? Love is let go, there’s regret, some wind, some storm. The poems are just a witness.

A gifted word smith in total control of his language, William Pettit's verse evoke images and emotions associated with landscape, joy, grieving, and intimacy.

Reviewed by Midwest Book Review

William Pettit’s Ghost Songs deftly sketch traces of the human and once-human, once-present, in the landscapes the speaker finds himself in and is shaped by. These poems are landscapes, acts of mind arranged and reactant, geological and cultural, personal and impersonal, always the desiring subject and the subject of d esire: here is a reverence for and appreciation of the provisionality and ephemerality of thought (and of course life) itself. A sense of humor suffuses many of these poems, the embrace of the momentary as momentary, fluid sympathies—Pettit’s lines are shifty, flexible—without will-to-transcendence, in fact, quite the opposite.

Reviewed by Karl Parker, Professor, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.

There is a high-modern pretension about his whole shit...If you’re having trouble suspending your addled sense of disbelief, pay attention to his sense of humor in these poems. Watch for the sly reversals. Don’t let him get away with them. There’s also a lot of fun to be had in looking at the way the words are positioned on the page. These poems are full of honest attention. The road to hell is paved with honest attention. My man is a road-paver.

Reviewed by Caleb Ransom

In Ghost Songs, Pettit takes a strong draw of cigarette at the weather worn wood posts of an earth valve; standing between nature and the vision of his own fleshly experience. Gone country and expat, he’s no Emerson resident. He took a Baudelaire refinement and left its womb behind for other sultriness. These poems, written between two thousand and two thousand three, are long sittings in an artist’s repose with armor fati and its quiet surrender to personal dissonance and personal narratives. To the degree they are personal accounts Pettit reveals in them both an agitation and serenade from the experience of nature’s expanse against his personal nuances and interactions.
Many of the poems employ the reader to accompany the city’s heart into country shadows. That place where blood meets dirt, meat feeds star, and gnawed bones grind the mill raw; spreading ashes to a chosen home.

Reviewed by Colby Hartsell