Ghost Pain : Poems

"Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved-through a long, rich career-into one of America's most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book."-T.R. Hummer "Ghost Pain is a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level."-Stephen Dunn The eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review explores addiction, alcoholism, violence and the uses and inadequacies of art.

Acknowledgments

ix

The Author in March

3

(2)

I. Was Blind But Now

5

(24)

1959

7

(2)

Gradus ad Parnassum

9

(2)

Getting Involved (by Henri Michaux)

11

(1)

Evening Walk as the School Year Starts

12

(2)

Blues in Another Time

14

(2)

Nowhere

16

(2)

November Out His Window

18

(2)

The Jetty (by Henri Michaux)

20

(2)

Epidemic

22

(2)

Was Blind But Now

24

(3)

Football Against the School for the Deaf

27

(2)

II. A Man Walked Out

29

(38)

i. A man walked into a bar

33

(1)

ii. Bell

34

(3)

iii. 666: Father of lies

37

(3)

iv. The old Indian

40

(3)

v. Predator

43

(3)

vi. The group

46

(7)

vii. Road rage

53

(3)

viii. Dry drunk, the rowing

56

(4)

ix. Talent from birth

60

(2)

x. Noon for good

62

(5)

III. Broken Haven

67

(34)

Ghost Pain

69

(3)

Hole

72

(3)

Plume on the Ceiling (by Henri Michaux)

75

(1)

Roadkill Season, I-91

76

(2)

Wonder: Red Beans and Ricely

78

(3)

In a Time of Torpor

81

(2)

At a Solemn Musick

i. After looking into my grandmother's hymnal

83

(2)

ii. Children, singing

85

(1)

Plume Had a Sore Finger (by Henri Michaux)

86

(2)

Finds

88

(2)

Suite in Mudtime

i. Winterkill

90

(2)

ii. A Hundred Himalayas

92

(2)

iii. Young Beech: How I See By Now

94

(2)

iv. Winter Holding Onto Winter

96

(2)

Transport

98

(3)

The Author

101

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