Only the Ghost has Lasted

Nancy Dembowski
95 pages (February 2002); 1.9MB download
Insomniac Press; ISBN: 9781897414750

DESCRIPTION

The poems in Nancy Dembowski's second collection are a series of tender, yet slightly morbid epistles written for the purpose of saying good-bye to a relationship, lifestyle or country. Underscored by a tone of resignation, the poems come alive in flashes of angry revenge -- bordering on the absurd -- together with tenderness and joy. Dembowski's poems, while written in a traditional Canadian story-telling manner, scratch the surface of the underbelly of America's dysfunction. This is the voice of an immigrant lost and alone somewhere between an urban trailer park in the deep south and a Tory election office in Ontario.