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In these rhythmic lyric pieces, ghosts, appear as indications, veils and shades, shadows and chance--in illness, art, nature and relationship; in the nebulousness of memory. Hosts of soul, self, and other. In Everybody Knows a Ghost, knowing denotes a closeness where there's space for struggle and fumbling, interplay and change. For when has it ever been unhuman to morph, perish, linger, or reappear.
About the author
Elana Wolff is the author of eight collections of poetry and a collection of essays on poems. She has also co-authored, with the late Malca Litovitz, a collection of rengas and co-translated, with Menachem Wolff, poems from the Hebrew by Georg Mordechai Langer. Elana's poems and creative nonfiction pieces are widely published in Canada and internationally and have garnered awards. She has taught English for Academic Purposes at York University in Toronto and at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario. Elana's collection,
Swoon (Guernica Editions, 2020), received the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry. Her latest book,
Faithfully Seeking Franz (Guernica Editions, 2023), a cross-genre quest for dead mentor, Prague modernist author Franz Kafka, is the recipient of the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture.
