The fluent, calm and utterly engaging voice with which E. J. Evans takes his reader through the poems of Ghost Houses almost obscures the fact on first reading that this is an elegiac collection. The poems are reminiscent in tone of the Chinese classics, where the speaker might be, like Evans, bidding goodbye to a remembered ex-wife, or his childhood home, or a life he'd once imagined possible, as he makes his way forward. Peter Fortunato, author of Enter the Mountain