Ebook {Epub PDF} Scratching the Ghost: Poems by Dexter L. Booth

Dexter L. Booth won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his debut collection, Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf Press, ). His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Grist, among others. Booth teaches poetry and English composition at Arizona State University. Add a gift card to your order! Choose your denomination:Missing: Dexter L. Booth. Dexter L. Booth’s debut poetry collection, Scratching the Ghost, was the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson. Booth’s poems have appeared in Amendment, Grist, New Delta Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Willow Springs. – There’s something eerie, warm, and familiar about Scratching the Ghost/5(60).

Add a gift card to your order! Choose your denomination. Dexter L. Booth is the author of Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf Press, ), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was selected by Major Jackson. Booth's poems have been included in the anthologies The Best American Poetry (edited by Sherman Alexie), The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss, and The Golden Shovel Anthology honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. ―from "Scratching the Ghost" Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood.

“In Dexter Booth’s Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to love-making. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Booth's poems are evocative, often searing, and impossible to read without being changed.” —Beckian Fritz Goldberg, author of Egypt from Space “In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to love-making. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Dexter L. Booth won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his debut collection, Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf Press, ). His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Grist, among others. Booth teaches poetry and English composition at Arizona State University.