Ghostword

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Apache, Crisosto, author

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A powerful personal journey of reflection and response. In lyric vignettes inspired by Akutagawa Ryonosuke's A Fool's Life, Crisosto Apache creates an original portrait of a mythic and myth-making ...

A powerful personal journey of reflection and response. In lyric vignettes inspired by Akutagawa Ryonosuke's A Fool's Life, Crisosto Apache creates an original portrait of a mythic and myth-making protagonist confronting the memories, language, and figures that haunt and inhabit his Ghostword - a stunning collection. -- Chip Livingston author of Crow-Blue, Crow-Black, and Museum of False Starts -- From https://crisostoapache.com/

Crisosto Apache draws powerfully on his Mescalero Apache language and culture and, guided along the way by touchstone sparks from the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, creates a singular journey out of "emotional burial and systemic abuse." Where Akutagawa encounters erasure, "Gazing up at them everything was forgotten," in Crisosto Apache's hands, everything is remembered and confronted, and, though filled with ash, these poems are testament to struggle, survival, and, x, the mysterious light of existence. -- Arthur Sze author of The Glass Constellation -- From https://crisostoapache.com/

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