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Ghost Map
Every step you walk in a town, someone has passed. Their ghosts are all over, and Tim Heerdink pinpoints some of his own as he travels through southern Indiana in this long poem serving as the poet's Ghost Map.
10 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2021
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About the author
Tim Heerdink
27 books15 followersTim Heerdink is the author of Somniloquy & Trauma in the Knottseau Well, The Human Remains, Red Flag and Other Poems, Razed Monuments, Checking Tickets on Oumaumua, Sailing the Edge of Time, I Hear a Siren’s Call, Ghost Map, A Cacophony of Birds in the House of Dread, Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay (with Tony Brewer) and short stories “The Tithing of Man” and “HEA-VEN2”. His poems appear in various journals and anthologies. He is the President of Midwest Writers Guild of Evansville, Indiana.
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August 30, 2021
Ghost Map has an air of sadness that is yet hipeful still. Another wonderful read from Tim Heerdink.
May 4, 2021
Praise for GHOST MAP-
Being a poet for many years, I assumed rather vainly that I had already read poetry. I was very much mistaken.
In this new Chapbook, Heerdink shines a flashlight in the caverns of his past, takes a breath to steady him in the present, before plunging into the icy depths of his future.
There is so much I could say about Ghost Map, but pick it up, feel the weight of death and sunshine radiating from within, and let Tim put you on the map…
In this, his greatest work yet, this poet proves time after time that you haven’t read poetry until you read Heerdink. Period.
-Jon Koker, author of SON, Duv-Z, DADDY, GHOST, and Gospel of Scars.
Being a poet for many years, I assumed rather vainly that I had already read poetry. I was very much mistaken.
In this new Chapbook, Heerdink shines a flashlight in the caverns of his past, takes a breath to steady him in the present, before plunging into the icy depths of his future.
There is so much I could say about Ghost Map, but pick it up, feel the weight of death and sunshine radiating from within, and let Tim put you on the map…
In this, his greatest work yet, this poet proves time after time that you haven’t read poetry until you read Heerdink. Period.
-Jon Koker, author of SON, Duv-Z, DADDY, GHOST, and Gospel of Scars.
June 17, 2021
I think now I understand why this collection and A Cacophony of Birds in the House of Dread were released together. Loss is never easy, but we can be grateful for the time we did have. I think this poet sums this up perfectly when he says:
“Twenty-six years will never be enough time,
But I’d rather have that than 100 with anyone else.
Some people live their whole lives
Never getting a fraction of this love.”
“Twenty-six years will never be enough time,
But I’d rather have that than 100 with anyone else.
Some people live their whole lives
Never getting a fraction of this love.”
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