Mojave Ghost

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 GhostisGander's most inviting and poignant book yet.