pRob Wright's emLast Wishesem is eclectic and delves into mining grit and lifestyle as fluently as it does into spiritual hopes and despairs, or the mind's lucidity and aberrations. Well-traveled in time and place, emLast Wishesem' culturally diverse characters and scenes-framed in Philadelphia, Fort Meyers, Manhattan, S o Paulo, Kowloon, Majdanek, or elsewhere-are memorable or miserable. Accounts of ghosts and hauntings, imagined or real, include heart-stopping witness narratives of the Holocaust and other atrocities. This is a seasoned inaugural collection-a special honoree for the 2019 Able Muse Book Award.p pstrongPRAISE FOR emLAST WISHESemstrongp pRob Wright's poems in emLast Wishesem ache with a quiet, exquisite music. Whether at the edge of the forest, or before a mirror regarding his own face, or at the limit of what a son can feel for his father, Wright calls us to join him on his search for order and meaning, even as he questions what he finds The shell that holds all grief a