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Scratching the Ghost
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Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson
The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. You are complaining about the itch,
the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel.
—from "Scratching the Ghost"
Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns a...