Ghost Man on Second Reviewed by Merion West

Thanks to Merion West and Johnny Payne for the glowing review of Erica Reid’s debut poetry collection, Ghost Man on Second. Of Reid’s work, Payne writes:

In Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet. Whether it dwells in the magnificent fourteen sonnets about her difficult relationship with her mother that form a crown, or in other poems that are more low-key about their status, or still others that show metrical or other echoes of that venerable yet plastic form, the sonnet haunts Reid’s consciousness as surely as any familial estrangement.

Read the full review here.