Ghost Machine

by Ben Mirov

Overview

This debut full-length poetry collection by Ben Mirov was the winner of the 2009 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, judged by Michael Burkard.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015830378
Publisher:	Caketrain
Publication date:	05/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	608 KB

About the Author

Ben Mirov is the author of the chapbooks Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2009) and I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010). He is general editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine. Sometimes he blogs at isaghost.blogspot.com.

Editorial Reviews

“Mirov’s poems sometimes seem as though they are composed with ghosts in mind, jilted zombies who eat and drink just like we do, who deadpan and mix explosive combinations to surprise and maybe, maybe let us visit what we’d miss if we weren’t invited into Mirov’s plan.”

Dara Wier, author of Remnants of Hannah

“The character, Ghost Machine, in Ben Mirov’s extraordinary poems creeps me out. It makes me feel uncomfortable, frustrated, and, at times, flat-out angry. I want to tell it to do something and be done with it. ‘Get a life,’ I say. But it never leaves me alone. Creepy’s good. Discomfort and anger are good. Feeling anything intensely in this life is good, from both sides of the grave.”

Ralph Angel, author of Exceptions and Melancholies

“Ben Mirov is the champion of the sentence. Every sentence is perfectly carved from a cold metal machine in the BART tunnels of Oakland that loops reality. They erase what they compress. I read this book and then puke in the shower. I read this book and then bleed on the sheets. My earlobes are wet. My pants are too small. These poems are about needing to touch something that you know your hand will go through. This book marks the end of fucking around.”

Zachary Schomburg, author of Scary, No Scary