Poetry. The dictionary tells us that a "ghost writer" is one who writes for another, but the matter is not so straightforward in Melody Davis's latest poetry collection. Who are the ghosts here, and who the writer? The book begins with poems about her mother in old age, raging against her confinement in a nursing home and in her own declining body, still demanding autonomy, hurling accusations over transgressions imagined and recalled--in short, as...
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