Mojave Ghost

Mojave Ghost,by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Forrest Gander, is a a novel poem, taking us to his birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his currentnorthern California home, where tumultuous memories coalesce with the present.Mojave Ghostinitiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness.Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never sidesteps thewholeness of experience, Gander's new collectiondiscovers an articulate language for the mergingof exterior and interior landscapes.Gander, trained as ageologist, walked along much of the 800-mile San Andreas fault toward the desolatetown of his birth, and found himself crossing permeable dimensions of time and space,correlating his emotions and the stricken landscape with other divisions: the fracturesand folds underlying not only our country, but any self in its relationship withothers. The result is this moving new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey.With its confidential tones and candid self-examination,Mojave GhostisGanders most inviting and poignant book yet.