Ghost Orchid

By Maurya Simon

For what does the spirit yearn? To know God. Maurya Simon's wonderful new book, Ghost Orchid, throws fresh light on that traditional question and answer in poems full of the sensuous language of the "Song of Songs" and the graphic images of modern disaffection. She shows us good and evil, both conscious and unconscious, and, even as she doubts such a reality, asks for God's "touch upon our waking lives." The yearning to know God, the legacy of human generations, has its latest expression in these ravishing poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888996846
• ISBN13: 9781888996845
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A Striking Mix of the Spiritual and the Somatic...

Reviewed in THE GEORGIA REVIEW ("Simon has given us a book about faith that is without faith, yet is suffused with hope and love"), this collection is, indeed, a striking mix of the spiritual and the somatic. The title refers to a flower found in the swamps of south Florida. It is a symbol in this collection of God, of everything that we must take on faith (including love and language). One is lucky to see a ghost orchid in one's lifetime, and luckier still to read GHOST ORCHID, this fine collection by Maurya Simon.