Ghosts I Have Seen: Chapter 1 - Silk Dress and Rumpus
by Violet Tweedale
20 pp / half letter / $4
Violet Tweedale (d. 1939) was the rarest of souls –
passionate, literate, a spiritualist, artist, musician, with ceaseless energy.
She wrote dozens of novels, short stories and essays with a depth of
imagination rarely seen in today’s literature. This makes Joseph Carlough’s
reprint of “Ghosts I Have Seen – Chapter One: Silk Dress and Rumpus”
(originally written in 1919, the year both of my parents were born!) all the
more refreshing, with delightfully fey / inspired drawings by Saint Beckett. Violet
reveals herself and her spiritual experiences slowly, wrapping the reader in
her philosophy and musings as the text expands. This may be a true ghost story
or remembered childhood dreams and fantasies. Regardless, her writing is
compelling and this chapbook is gorgeously printed and choreographed.
I fervently hope that Mr. Carlough follows through with his
project to reprint more chapters from Violet Tweedale’s “Ghosts I Have Known” memoir in chapbook form.
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