{"product_id":"chasing-ghosts-paperback-1","title":"Chasing Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. Z. Ribalow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Z. Ribalow\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, playwright and author. His novel \u003ci\u003ePeanuts and Crackerjacks\u003c\/i\u003e and his new play\u003ci\u003eMasterpiece\u003c\/i\u003e are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on \u003ci\u003eLuck\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He is series editor of the \u003ci\u003ePlays from New River\u003c\/i\u003e volumes (McFarland Publications) and has also co-written ten children's books and non-fiction books on sports, baseball and chess. He writes frequently on film, theatre, literature, music, and has appeared as a film historian on \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery Channel\u003c\/i\u003e and on special feature documentaries of several DVD releases of classic films. He is Artistic Director and co-founder of\u003ci\u003e New River Dramatists\u003c\/i\u003e, which has for the last decade successfully developed hundreds of new plays and screenplays while discovering and nurturing gifted writers, and which also presents poetry, fiction and drama on the\u003ci\u003e New River Radio Show\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eArt International Radio\u003c\/i\u003e online. He lives in New York City, where he is currently full-time artist-in-residence at Fordham University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"M. Z. Ribalow is a poet of real distinction. His work is precise, perceptive, and provocative--in the best sense available to the mind and heart. I strongly recommend \u003ci\u003eChasing Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. Discover it, and you will return to it again and again.\"\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eN. Scott Momaday\u003c\/b\u003e, Pulitzer Prize Laureate, author of \u003ci\u003eAgain the Far Morning\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intellectual who persists in the love of language, an aging lover who dates Dickinson but marries Millay, a poet who is a king of paradox, M. Z. Ribalow, in his \u003ci\u003eChasing Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e cannot escape blood in our bloody continuing era, but his poetry is inspiring. He is a first-rate poet who yearns for connection even as he is most at home with the separateness with which we are all afflicted. If you strive for the poetry which builds a rough unity and is about the flightiness of reality, you will be at home with Ribalow's work.\"\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAndrew Glaze\u003c\/b\u003e, SEBA Book of the Year Winner for Poetry, author of \u003ci\u003eReality Street\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSomeone Will Go On Owing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"M. Z. Ribalow is a poet not of the thing itself, but of the thing's echoes, the thousand aftermaths of movies and conversations with God and midnight neurotic phone calls and ticking memories, the regret that becomes a salvation of sorts without ever ceasing to be regret, the 'quiet ache that is its own heartbeat.' These poems are lyrical but never flowery, cool but not detached, suffused at every elegantly turned phrase by meaning, or the hunger for it.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003cb\u003e Glen Hirshberg\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Morons\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Bunk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733468155967,"sku":"9780983274735","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/00c1a3990791774dce1b09cf962f7782.webp?v=1765136046","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/chasing-ghosts-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}