Ghost Radio

This is Lourie’s seventh individual collection. A musician as well as a poet, he plays tenor sax and trumpet. Ghost Radio includes the complete text of the poem “Forgiving Our Fathers,” which is featured in the movie Smoke Signals. “It’s good to hear his voice again after a lapse of some years–a voice he found early, and which speaks with a unique and convincing eloquence.” –Denise Levertov. “Dick Lourie’s poems are like sudden, dramatic snapshots of true feeling and memory: of friends, family, life, death, and–maybe most of all–music.”–Alison Lurie