"Poetry always demands all my ghosts": the haunted and haunting poetry of Rane Arroyo

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Ohio-based, Chicago-born, gay, Puerto Rican author Rane Arroyo writes poetry in which ghosts and ghostliness serve as metaphors for identities that are present but not always represented in dominant U.S. literary history. This essay argues that in Arroyo´s mainly autobiographical poetry, ghosts, hauntings, and a broader concept of ghostliness are used to interrogate identifications that float between, around, and through socially constructed categories such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality. While the relationship between the poetic voice and his specters varies and is shown to be quite complex, Arroyo´s ghosts serve not only as constant inspiration for his poetry but also as vehicles for his meditations on identity.

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Inglés Ohio-based, Chicago-born, gay, Puerto Rican author Rane Arroyo writes poetry in which ghosts and ghostliness serve as metaphors for identities that are present but not always represented in dominant U.S. literary history. This essay argues that in Arroyo´s mainly autobiographical poetry, ghosts, hauntings, and a broader concept of ghostliness are used to interrogate identifications that float between, around, and through socially constructed categories such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality. While the relationship between the poetic voice and his specters varies and is shown to be quite complex, Arroyo´s ghosts serve not only as constant inspiration for his poetry but also as vehicles for his meditations on identity.