Everything is Ghosts

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Everything is Ghosts</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a meditation on the fragility of new independence and a juxtaposition of personal histories-in-progress with the troubled histories of a college town's residents-many of whom are dead. This collection's poems follow a group of college friends through their experiences with burgeoning adulthood as they reckon with where they've been and whom they might be turning into. Whether braving a dorm haunted by the spirit of a basketball player and nebulous shadow people daring each other out onto a murder-scene bridge at midnight witnessing ghost hunters in the campus library or wrestling personal hauntings like vehicular accidents drug use the after-effects of polio and the passage of time the players in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Everything is Ghosts</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> learn to keep one eye open at all times. As they create carouse and hold each other up they learn that being haunted can have more than just one meaning.</span></p><p></p>