![]() ![]() Most-despite the fact that there is little comfort to offer here-there is a faith in the body, in humanity, to bear its burdens. Their voices are ‘the chattering of crows in a distant sycamore.’ There is awe in these voices, and self-deprecation, and lament. “The ghosts that haunt Iain Haley Pollock’s poems have substance. ![]() Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Iain Pollock has a slow, steady hand that's fine tuning the pentatonic chambers where whole and half notes of the heart glisten the world. This Ghost, like a Place is a phantasm of small psalms settling into territory familiar with new beginnings and bearing ragged, but revealing truths. ![]() Memory, culpability, and our very humanness course through this book and strip us down to find joy and inspiration amid the darkness. This collection highlights the complexities of fatherhood and how to raise young kids while bearing witness to the charged movements of social injustice and inequities of race in America. He also serves as poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. Pollock teaches English at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY, and is a member of the poetry faculty at the Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Baffler, and The New York Times Magazine. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of two poetry collections, Ghost, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy, which won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. ![]()
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