Delving into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more, this title explores the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of gravesend, implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end.

One: Have you ever seen a ghost? Echo Body If Sometimes the Ghost Etymology A Ghost He Who Was Varieties of Ghost Ajar The Ghost Is in Itself The End of Antiquity According to Scripture More Miracula Going Home The Hellequin's Hunt Who Only Living The Gesta The Ghost Story History What Ghosts Interview Series 1 Walking Through A Face Toward the End The Beginnings of the Modern Era Fairy Tale Two: How did Gravesend get its name? Ghost Stories A Good Friend Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman Some Paintings of Ghosts Some Ghosts in Paintings Gravesend Gravesend Gravesend Interview Series 2 Pocahontas (1595, Powhatan Confederacy--1616, Gravesend, England) The Ghost Dance The Name Engraved Kent Three: What do you think a ghost is? Cicatrice Ghosts in the Sun Whole Ghost Traveling Ghost Crowds And Are Ghosts Interview Series 3 Old Wives' Tales Freud Claims Some Chinese Ghosts Across Ghosts Who Did After This Death There Will Be No Other Haint Blue One No How a Ghost Might Age Who Walked The Ghost Orchid Acknowledgments Notes

“The act of seeing, and seeing as a kind of consciousness, is where Swensen’s true project lies. For unlike many poets before her who have practiced the art of ekphrasis by describing or illuminating the visual, Swensen is interested in the representation of representation…. Above all, she is interested in the process and procedures of perception.”—Boston Review“Swensen draws relationships between disparate elements across time, space and discipline with a magician's touch. Her work continues to meditate on the act, and art, of seeing and saying.”—Publisher’s Weekly“One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry.”—Library Journal