Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award

A book-length meditation on ghosts and ghost stories in Swensen’s haunting style… [She] draws relationships between disparate elements across time, space, and discipline with a magician's touch.— Publishers Weekly

It is poetry that honestly admits the inchoate, affirms mystery and responds to successive readings: it is alive.— The Volta

The act of seeing, and seeing as a kind of consciousness, is where Swensen’s true project lies.
—Boston Review

Gravesend serves as Swensen’s angel song, providing us with a gentle yet insistent reminder: if you find that “real life” has a window in it, then you’re dealing with a ghost.—Sam Rowe, Full Stop: https://www.full-stop.net/2012/10/19/reviews/sam/gravesend-cole-swenson/

Link to the book
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Other links:

Review by J.D. Miller in the Poetry Project Newsletter:
Interview with Christopher Nelson
Link to the Italian translation by Alessandro DiFrancesco