Jacket Blurb for Ghost Maps

The first of the expected three jacket blurbs for Ghost Maps came today, and it's left me bubbling around the house in happiness. I can't resist sharing a little bit of it.

These poems are the best that language can give us. They startled me into tears.

With the bravery of a Gwendolyn MacEwen taking on the uneasy life of T.E. Lawrence, Erin Noteboom gets inside the heart and head of a WWII veteran who doesn't even want his name to be mentioned. Instead, what we get is blood-warm imagery, the taste of a story, and a rare, hard-won wisdom.

The poet says that we used to know that "every opening is a door / for ghosts." Make room for these ghosts because the minute you start reading this book, they will lift off the page and walk into your world. Forever you'll be haunted by them and by the remarkable power of Erin Noteboom's poetry.
--Lorna Crozier

Okay, so I can't resist sharing all of it. It means all the more because I so admire Ms. Crozier's work. I wish we could meet.

Oh, happy, happy, bubble, bubble, squee!