Download or read book The Reassurance of Ghosts written by Jon Obermeyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Reassurance of Ghosts" is Jon Obermeyer's debut collection, representing 40 years of poems. A former student of Robert Watson and Fred Chappell, Jon fulfills the promise with 140 finely-wrought, captivating narratives, full of immediacy and a clever, playful love of our language. While you can no longer consider Jon a young, undiscovered poet, what we see here is a consummate artisan working at full-force power and reach.