"CBC Poetry Prize finalist and National Magazine Award honoree Faith Arkorful's breathtaking, surpassingly thoughtful debut collection of poems. The Seventh Town of Ghosts reckons with hauntings and hauntedness. Each of the titular ghost towns are peopled by yesterdays both troubling and trellis-like, and the sojourns between these sister cities anchor the collection. Here, veracity is ever-present, guided from the ground up by Faith Arkorful's unerring insights on the pain and shuttered possibilities Black people endure as members of a perpetual (un)citizenry: here are the ravages of the state, the police, and other agents of injustice upon an uncle, a mother, a friend--upon the spirits and ancestors, memory and hope--upon body and soul. But here, too, is a witness and a war cry to answer back, speaking not only for, but with, those dead too soon."-- Provided by publisher.