There Is Only One Ghost in the World

“Edgy and gripping, the slides in this carousel are not from last summer’s vacation. They are nerve patterns projected on the screen. Click after click, they give us episodic miniatures of loss and absence, first and last things, the guises of love… Sequencing is essential in a work like this—Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller have the prose equivalent of perfect pitch.”
—Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again

". . .The tone is incredibly consistent, providing a wonderfully coherent whole between these two writers, during the pandemic area. . .This is a book I wished I'd written; and I'm terribly jealous."
—Rob McLennan, Critic and author of Notes and Dispatches: essays

"If you asked me the genre of this book, I’m not sure I could give you a concrete answer. It seems unable to be boxed in, despite the blocked prose poetry. These collaborative page-long pieces are semi-autobiographical, magical, dipping into daydreams, worrying about the world, traveling back in time, reflecting and forgetting and rebuilding and growing. Not memoir, not a novel, not a poetry collection. The same body is occupied despite the two writers, who both seem to be channeling something larger than themselves. Like two minds inside of a solo ghost, floating around the globe, one fractured catastrophe at a time."
—Ben Niespodziany, Neonpajamas.

“A deeply poignant work of both generosity and vision creating an indelible shape and told in lucid, luminous prose. Beautifully done.”
—Carole Maso, author of Mother Child

"Klahr Zeller frame [There is Only One Ghost in the World] in such a way that, even though the narrative follows no obvious trajectory, it captures, by the end, an arc of unabashed hope in the simplest joys."
—Shyanne Hamrick, Heavy Feather Review.