Ghost River by Kris Johnson Michael Edwards an anthem of desire against

an anthem of desire against erasure

to politics

These poems are ‘granular things / that flow freely when touched’

or themselves lost

‘With his unique way of seeing

Ghost River by Kris Johnson Michael Edwards an anthem of desire againstGhost 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