Ghost in the Graveyard

Can we still claim a place as a “home” if that home no longer exists? In Ghost in the Graveyard, Winner of the Hudson Prize, we encounter the absence of a place that many once called their hometown…a town which is now simply gone. Through the lens of a former ghost town in Wyoming that was eventually demolished, the poems in Greg Nicholl’s debut collection explore identity and our relationship to the physical places in our lives. How those places define us—or, sometimes, fail to—especially ...