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Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, in 1947, and grew up...
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	FURTHER READING


		Ghost Poems
		Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes] by William Shakespeare

		A Ghost by Cole Swensen

		All Hallows Night by Lizette Woodworth Reese

		Blue Dementia by Yusef Komunyakaa

		Blue Oxen by Dara Wier

		Epitaph by Eric Pankey

		Ghost by Paul Mariani

		Ghost Elephants by Jean Valentine

		Ghost House by Robert Frost

		Ghost in the Land of Skeletons by Christopher Kennedy

		Ghost Notes [excerpt] by Ralph Burns

		Ghostology by Rebecca Lindenberg

		Ghosts That Need Reminding by Dana Levin

		Hallow-E'en, 1915 by Winifred M. Letts

		Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

		Haunted Seas by Cale Young Rice

		How Can It Be I Am No Longer I by Lucie Brock-Broido

		Lamp or Mirror by Tony Barnstone

		Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe

		Letter from a Haunted Room by Lisa Sewell

		Low Barometer by Robert Bridges

		My hero bares his nerves by Dylan Thomas

		Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy by Donald Justice

		Patsy Sees a Ghost by Lola Haskins

		Poems About Ghosts

		Rain by Claribel Alegría

		Red String by Minnie Bruce Pratt

		Restless Ghost by Eric Pankey

		Sequestered Writing by Carolyn Forché

		Shadwell Stair by Wilfred Owen

		Shaking the Grass by Janice N. Harrington

		Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi by Garrett Hongo

		Song for the Clatter-Bones by F. R. Higgins, read by James Wright

		Spirit Birds by Stanley Plumly

		The Apparition by John Donne

		The Ghost Has No Home by Jeff Clark

		The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

		To the Trespasser by David Barber

		We're All Ghosts Now by Dara Wier

		What They Found In the Diving Bell by Traci Brimhall

		Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us by Shane McCrae


		Lesson Plans
		Ghosts and Spirits

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Unbidden
by Rae Armantrout

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each loves you. Each has left something undone. • Did the palo verde blush yellow all at once? Today's edges are so sharp they might cut anything that moved. • The way a lost word will come back unbidden. You're not interested in it now, only in knowing where it's been.

Rae Armantrout, "Unbidden" from Versed. Copyright © 2009 by Rae Armantrout. Used by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved.

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