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In System of Ghosts, Lindsay Tigue details the way landscape speaks to isolation and personhood, how virtual and lived networks alter experience. She questions how built environments structure lives, how we seek out information within these spaces, and, most fundamentally, how we love.

Rooted in the personal, the speaker of this collection moves through society and history, with the aim of firmly placing herself within her own life and loss. Facts become an essential bridge between spatial and historical boundaries. She connects us to the disappearance of species, abandoned structures, and heartbreak—abandoned spaces that tap into the searing grief woven into society’s public places. There is solace in research, one system this collection uses to examine the isolation of contemporary life alongside personal, historical, and ecological loss. While her poems are intimate and personal, Tigue never turns away from the larger contexts within which we all live.

System of Ghosts is, at its core, an act of reaching out—across time, space, history, and across the room. 

System of Ghosts Iowa Poetry Prize Lindsay Tigue 9781609384012 Books

System of Ghosts by Lindsay Tigue is the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize winning collection. Tigue was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has received a James Merrill fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University and is a current Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. For the 2015 to 2016 academic year, she will serve as assistant to the editors at the Georgia Review.

The Iowa Poetry Prize is an annual event that I always look forward to. It always brings forth young poets and presents them to the world. I am a bit like a child who can't wait until Christmas. I usually review these books too early. I did hold off for three months before reading this a month early.

Tigue seems to write from almost snapshots of memories or images. The detail and experience of her writing conveys the reader to a place and moment in time and presents what seems to be a first-hand account or shared memory. The descriptions are vivid, whether a common experience of traveling on an airplane or more complex interactions with others. She also brings to life images of history and geology with the action of plate tectonics. There is also something of Percy Shelley's “Ozymandias” in "Progress Without End", the motto of Pullman company, whose greatest works are now diners or scrap.

System of Ghosts is vivid, personal, and cordial. It is a near perfect collection of poetry that remains in a traditional form and does not deviate from convention just to be different. The relationships between people (and pets) are warm and the places are familiar. Tigue is able to capture and develop memories ways I could only dream of. Although different from my memories I read and say out loud "Yes, this is what I want to say!". Even her poem “Leap” of her twelve-year-old experience at the aquarium snapping picture after picture of the dolphins being fed and leaping from the water, Tigue captures a bit shared memory. The pictures are blurry and her mother asks why waste so much film on grainy dolphin pictures, yet she cherishes the pictures. I think we all had that imperfect reminder or picture we held on to as a child -- something so common place to adults but very special to us as a child.

Tigue presents an outstanding collection poetry that is worthy of attention and shows the average reader that poetry can be for everyone and that there is a common connection between us all.

Product details Series Iowa Poetry Prize Paperback 84 pages Publisher University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1609384016

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System of Ghosts Iowa Poetry Prize Lindsay Tigue 9781609384012 Books Reviews

Have you ever taken a test in a dream? You show up in dream-class and discover there’s a major exam that day, worth most of your grade, and you’d forgotten about it—didn’t study.

Panic sets in. You look at the questions, and nothing about them seems familiar. You begin to wonder how you could have missed so much. You’re not even sure if the test is in your language.

Lindsay Tigue’s Iowa Poetry Prize-winning collection, System of Ghosts (University of Iowa Press, 2016), feels like the answer key to a dream test. Or maybe it’s the answer bank—on the left are inscrutable questions, and on the right is the info found in Tigue’s poems, waiting to be circled and connected to close the loop.

I get this sense partly because of the beautifully random information in Tigue’s writing. Craig Morgan Teicher, the judge who selected this manuscript for the prize, describes her perfectly as “magpielike.” He writes, “Lindsay Tigue has, first and foremost, a curious mind Her poems are motored by information. Bits of knowledge, gathered magpielike, which others might consider trivia, […] spur these poems toward startling personal and public insights.”

I love snippets of information that is brand new to me. Trivia functions as image sometimes, and enriches poems in this way. I like the start of “Bliss,” a poem about cars and roadways and how we get around.

You know, they had traffic
in ancient Rome and in 1769,
Nicolas Cugnot built a steam-powered

gun carriage. He ran it into a wall.
In 1899, in New York City, Arthur Smith
hit H.H. Bliss, the first American pedestrian

killed by car. …

That is how the poem begins—with a layering of fact that sets the reader up for the ending (just after Tigue’s factoid about why traffic lights are in the colors red and green)

I see us entering the earliest crosswalk,
the semaphore arm raised. And later—

illuminated at night—those fog-edged
boxes glowing instruction. We can’t even
trust ourselves to look both ways.

And that’s Tigue offering information that may be unimportant or may, in fact, be vital, be on the dream test, and then it turns out all those facts were going somewhere worth being. She has nailed me there, at the busy intersection, not trusting my bearings, looking for instruction. And I got there via ancient Rome.

One project of the book feels like it is to locate the self. In the title poem, “We Are a System of Ghosts,” Tigue writes,

… Most days, half the mail I get is for others.
Or, it isn’t even addressed to a name

Current Resident. I pile it all in a shoebox and keep it
up, away on a shelf. …

That feels like a clue, but it’s to a mystery you didn’t even know you were Nancy-Drewing.

Another clue shows up in “Elevator,” my favorite poem in the collection. Tigue sets up a scenario where a person gets on her elevator and confesses to her that he sometimes hits the alarm button repeatedly. “Nothing will happen, he’s told her. // “No one will come.” He explains that the elevator opened to “a room of desks. // Suited people have raised their heads.”

Writes Tigue,

Yesterday, at group therapy,
she was made to repeat

I am worthy. She’s had to do
this every week. She thought it

stupid until it wasn’t.
Maybe next time after saying it—

I am worthy—she’ll remember the faces
beyond the elevator. Their asking who

is sounding this alarm?

As in the poem “Abandoned Places,” featuring a child’s grave about to be overtaken by water (“Forget me not // is all I ask,” the tombstone reads), Tigue’s voice cries out to be observed, remembered, noted, and valued.

But it’s not entirely glum. I love the optimism at the ending of “Solitary, Imaginary”

These days, I live alone
and sit near a computer. All day
I stare. And when the electricity goes out
with its slapped silence,

I act like I’m not thrilled, that I don’t love
to meet neighbors in the street. Do you
have power? I ask. Do you have light?

Tigue, it may definitively be said, has both.
A patient poetry that deliberately sets you to thinking, mulling over Tigue's lines long after you're done reading
System of Ghosts by Lindsay Tigue is the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize winning collection. Tigue was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has received a James Merrill fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University and is a current Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. For the 2015 to 2016 academic year, she will serve as assistant to the editors at the Georgia Review.

The Iowa Poetry Prize is an annual event that I always look forward to. It always brings forth young poets and presents them to the world. I am a bit like a child who can't wait until Christmas. I usually review these books too early. I did hold off for three months before reading this a month early.

Tigue seems to write from almost snapshots of memories or images. The detail and experience of her writing conveys the reader to a place and moment in time and presents what seems to be a first-hand account or shared memory. The descriptions are vivid, whether a common experience of traveling on an airplane or more complex interactions with others. She also brings to life images of history and geology with the action of plate tectonics. There is also something of Percy Shelley's “Ozymandias” in "Progress Without End", the motto of Pullman company, whose greatest works are now diners or scrap.

System of Ghosts is vivid, personal, and cordial. It is a near perfect collection of poetry that remains in a traditional form and does not deviate from convention just to be different. The relationships between people (and pets) are warm and the places are familiar. Tigue is able to capture and develop memories ways I could only dream of. Although different from my memories I read and say out loud "Yes, this is what I want to say!". Even her poem “Leap” of her twelve-year-old experience at the aquarium snapping picture after picture of the dolphins being fed and leaping from the water, Tigue captures a bit shared memory. The pictures are blurry and her mother asks why waste so much film on grainy dolphin pictures, yet she cherishes the pictures. I think we all had that imperfect reminder or picture we held on to as a child -- something so common place to adults but very special to us as a child.

Tigue presents an outstanding collection poetry that is worthy of attention and shows the average reader that poetry can be for everyone and that there is a common connection between us all.