Country of Ghost

Gaylord Brewer's ninth collection of poetry <i>Country of Ghost</i> is by turns harrowing haunted and darkly humorous and always deeply felt. When the figure Ghost appears—crossing a bridge in Spain beside a river of the dead in France across a midnight lake in Finland—our speaker follows into a ravenous geography of longing and regret. In this astounding sequence of poems who has summonsed whom? Brewer's folie à deux explores both the worlds of the living and of the dead worlds alternately aching and tender and of the spirits caught between them.