All the Ghosts in My Hometown

"All the ghosts in my hometown, the latest collection by the prolific Matt Borczon is surely aptly titled. To call it a love letter to the poet's hometown or a nostalgic ode to adolescence would adequate only in the most basic of interpretations. Indeed, the collection provides nuanced, multi-faceted analyses of what it means to have lived the life that Borczon has. While for sure there are brief glimpses of sweet reminiscence, the poet drills down and expresses the ambiguous nature of our...