Greenlight Bookstore is proud to host the launch of GHOST :: SEEDS  by Sebastian Merrill. Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST :: SEEDS puts a queer spin on the myth of Persephone, incorporating elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity. The central tension of this book-length poem is a dialogue between a trans speaker and his “ghost,” the “girl-ghost” of the self that he left behind to become the man he is today. Alternating between prose-like elements and lyric meditations, the book’s expansive form makes full use of the page from margin to margin, creating space and breathing room for complicated investigations of memory, gender, and grief. In conversation with Alicia Mountain, author of Four in Hand (Boa Editions, 2023), Sebastian Merrill takes the Greenlight stage for an evening of poetry and communion.