Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

I wonder why I never heard of Lawrence Raab before. His poetry is thoroughly enjoyable. The language, images, common occurrence subjects - fortune cookie (if this is a subject in a poetry book, then you know the poet's work is very approachable).

Following is the excerpt from an article "How to Pay Attention to a Poem":
“Don’t worry about the consequences until you’ve noticed all you can,” Raab says. “With this poem, or any, it’s important to avoid being reductive. A good poem resists paraphrase, refuses to let its meanings become too simple, like an answer found in the back of a textbook or a truism in a fortune cookie. No good poem, especially one as mysterious and reticent as ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,’ ever exhausts itself, even as it turns itself over to you, the reader. So you may secretly carry it around, discovering—perhaps by surprise, as I have—that you know it by
heart and then, years later, remembering it as a kind of revelation and finding it has changed, since you yourself have changed.”

Elsewhere I have read about his process of revision for poems. All in all, Raab's poems will interest you in asking and wondering how a particular poem might have been made.