Description

NightwoodEditions,paperback

Publication Date:April 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Many cultures have had names for seers like Matt Rader. Contemporary Western culture has none. This is the book of a man who has died more than once and who carries with him knowledge of the point where beings blaze touches nothingness. A book of profound humility and intense vision. Jan Zwicky

Ghosthawkis a guidebook of imagination from grasslands to star fields to the weather of the poets body. Whereshomein the crises of ecological collapse and mortal illness? Wheresjoywith constant pain, a future blurred by smoke? Carrying these questions, Matt Rader wrote down the names of the wildflowers he met in the mountains, canyons and woodlands of his home in the Okanagan Valley. These poems are what he learned, the directions as he can best describe them.