Ghost River by Kris Johnson Jorie Graham as in her earlier books

as in her earlier books Missel-Child (Carcanet

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This remarkable compendium is a testament to the spirit of Phillips's work

Ghost River by Kris Johnson Jorie Graham as in her earlier booksGhost River invites readers to stare down blue mouthed crevasses, venture into old growth forests, and peer beneath the floorboards of ancestral homesteads. In this lyrical and intimate portrait of America's Pacific Northwest, wilderness and home are interwoven. But this is not Arcadia. Deep time is punctured by strip malls and freeways, wildfires and dams. Questioning the influence of the past on the present, the central sequence reimagines this