Join Ernest & Hadley Booksellers on Friday, Sept. 25 at 5:30 PM as we celebrate Charles Ghigna and The Lost Book of Life: New and Selected Poems, along with special guest, Jennifer Horne. Order your copy here!
A poetic journey through five decades of wonder, memory, and love, where the ordinary becomes sacred and every line leads home
The Lost Book of Life: New and Selected Poems gathers five decades of work by Charles Ghigna, a beloved and influential voice in contemporary Southern poetry, into a single, luminous volume. Blending new poems with selections from fourteen previous collections, it traces a poetic journey through nature, family, memory, and love, and celebrates the sacred woven into everyday life.
“Charles Ghigna's poems in The Lost Book of Life pulse with an evanescence of curiosity and love. They are radiant meditations on what it means to notice, to play, and to be alive.” —Kerry Madden-Lunsford, author of Werewolf Hamlet
Charles Ghigna is author of more than 5000 poems and one hundred books for children and adults. His books have been published by Disney, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others. His poems have been published in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post and The Wall Street Journal.