Ghosts on the Road - Wayne Greenhaw
Poetry
ISBN 10: 1-57966-078-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-57966-078-9
Trade paper
6 x 9
92 pages
$14.95
From the Author: "If you're looking for perfect poetry, go to Yeats or Shelley or Keats. These poems are simply recollections, excerpts from my personal journals. I make no apologies for my rough and ragged rhymes, my torn and tattered couplets, my unmitigated, imperfected alliteration.
"These portraits, snags of information, feelings from a long and blemished past, are snatches of myself, my observations, my feelings, my life that has been so enhanced by loved ones and great friends, some of whom I remember here. I have been blessed . . .
"This is my chance to deliver upon a longtime promise to myself to unload my wanderings for others to read. Here in the pages of Ghosts on the Road you may walk with me, see the world as I have seen it, and enjoy the sights and tastes, the sounds and feelings of my people."
—Wayne Greenhaw
Praise for Wayne Greenhaw"Wayne Greenhaw is one of the best-ever writers of narrative." "Wayne Greenhaw is simply one of the best writers in America and truly one of the South’s greatest treasures." "Wayne Greenhaw finds the history that haunts us and writes it smart, sharp and hard, words falling like a tack-hammer on our conscience." "Everything Wayne Greenhaw writes is moving, beautiful, and a precious gift." |
About Wayne Greenhaw
WAYNE GREENHAW is the 2006 recipient of the Harper Lee Award for Alabam'’s Distinguished Writer, given annually at Monroeville’s Alabama Writers' Symposium.
In 2005, he received the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, given annually by the University of Alabama’s College of Communication.
An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Greenhaw's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Reader’s Digest, Music City News, and many others.
He is the author of more than seventeen books, the most recent of which is The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow (co-authored with Donnie Williams). He divides his time between Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.