Dear Ghosts,: Poems

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Half genius. Half... not.
Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts, (Graywolf, 2006)

Tess Gallagher, when she's writing intensely personal, imagist poems, is perhaps one of America's better poets currently working. And about half of Dear Ghosts, is comprised of exactly this sort of thing. Unfortunately, the reader must also contend with the other half of the book, which treads, and sometimes falls flat on its face over, the line of message poetry, over which very few poets can walk and still produce anything even remotely related to poetry. Worth reading, but beware a few pitfalls here and there. ***

2006-10-16 | xterminal (Cleveland, OH) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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The Best of American Poetry
You can do nothing better for yourself than to read Dear Ghosts,. Tess Gallagher has always been among the best of American poets. Her most recent work continues to add jewels to the crown of great poetry. As the poems engage us, we become aware why poetry is so necessary to the human spirit. Dear Ghosts, opens us to emotion. Within its enacted drama, we walk the difficult but necessary terrain of reaching out to others, thereby realizing ourselves. Finally, Gallagher explores the frontier of language itself, continually reminding us that in words we discover self. The best books of poetry, no matter how deeply we linger and meditate, no matter how we value them for their ability to yield in reading after reading, are also page-turners, and this is a book, once begun, you won't want to put down. And one you'll pick up again, year after year.--Alice Derry, Peninsula College

2006-10-16 | Alice Derry (Port Angeles WA USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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She just keeps on getting better
A book of poems by Tess Gallagher is an event. They're beautifully presented and beautifully written. And they are powerful. The poet doesn't seem satisfied to write about pretty things; she wants her poems to matter. And they do. Poems about murderers and refugees and sad, tragic lives; poems about war and childhood and marriages and joy; and poems about the dead (those "dear ghosts"): a sparrow, her father, her mother, her husband. This is a book to savor. Read it slowly, then read it again. And again. It's so easy to miss the nuances, the subleties. Tess Gallagher writes of enormous themes, and she does so in small and striking language - intimately. You will devour this book and crave to "take the next bite / and say, I believe it."

2006-10-06 (New York City) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Featuring poems in which ghosts of the past are summoned and discoursed with in the present day
Published fourteen years after the author's previous poetry book, Dear Ghosts is the seventh collection and long-awaited return of Tess Gallagher's poetic voice. Featuring poems in which ghosts of the past are summoned and discoursed with in the present day, Dear Ghosts speaks with such spectral figures as the deceased beloved, the long-dead father, and victims of holocaust and war. Gallagher confronts her own aging, illness, and mortality with grace, modesty, and good humor in this insightful and reflective collection. "Knives in the Borrowed House": Don't sharpen them. / Expectation, more dangerous / than any blade.

2006-05-06 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories

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The Man from Kinvara
Tess Gallagher's writing seems to have two main influences: a violent family tragedy early in her life, and her marriage to short story master Raymond Carver. Both of these influences act as touchstones in The Man from Kinvara Gallagher's volume of selected stories.

Gallagher has gathered the stories from two earlier volumes, The Lover of Horses and At the Owl Woman Saloon, to make up this book. The selections from The Lover of Horses are vibrant, arresting visions of blue collar life tinged with depression and violence, as in the title story, where an immigrant family loses their breadwinner to a circus, and a young descendant struggles with her inheritance of that wildness.

The stories in the second half are more distant from the action, often told from a bystander's perspective. This may cause an unfortunate disconnect for readers, unless they are familiar with Carver's work. Many of the pieces from At the Owl Woman Saloon are responses to some of Carver's most famous stories, and are a touching homage to a loved husband.

Reviewed by Katie Capello

2010-01-14 | SacramentoBookReview.com (Sacramento, CA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Moon Crossing Bridge

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Tess Gallagher's stunning new poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver.

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Tess Gallagher's poems in this collection chart the painful road of mourning, memory, and change following the death of her beloved husband, fiction writer Raymond Carver. From feelings of sharing death to memories of valentines they gave each other, and then in an upward arch through Zen imagery of cherry blossoms and curved bridges, Gallagher's poems come to no easy rest on the banks of a new life and new loves. But for all those who have experienced tragedy, the poems relate a common assurance that a crossing into survival can be reached.

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Customer Reviews

simply beautiful
WOW!!!!! what imagery, heart and beauty..Tess Gallagher's tribute
book to her deceased husband Raymond Carver,is the words of a grieving angel.."Deaf Poem" is my favorite.moon over bridge will
go down in history as one of the great book of poems dealing with
love,lost and renewal again..and i couldnt help thinking after reading it,how truly blessed Mr Carver was to have a love like
Tess in his life..and every man would be blessed to have a lady
love them just a tenth as much as she did..and does..pick up
this book!!!!!you wont regret it..

2004-02-20 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Moon Crossing
This is a great book of poems written near the time of her husband's death. I read the review of this book and purchased it for a friend whose husband had died. Now, 5 years later, she still tells me how much she loved this book and how much it meant to her. This is a great book. It is particularly wonderful for someone who has lost their husband.

2001-06-18 (Los Angeles, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Poems certainly worthy of highest praise...
The passion and imagery contained in this book of highly personal poems astounds! I hope Ms. Gallagher's book will gain the recognition it deserves. To allow us to come so close to the poet seems to be a rarity in much of today's poetry. This incredible sharing will grab you and not let go. Our thanks to Ms. Gallagher . . .

2000-01-12 (Greenwood, IN USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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An extraordinarily complex and daring book of elegies
Gallagher, whose decade-long relationship with the great short story writer Raymond Carver ended with Carver's early death to cancer in 1987, has written a masterpiece. Largely underrecognized, Moon Crossing Bridge has yet to receive its full due as one of the most deeply thoughtful and passionate poetic works on the subject of loss to emerge in recent memory. Gallagher has allowed the language that rose from her grief to carry her into the mystery that constitutes the borderland between the dead and those left behind. Her words sway like the tough threads of a hammock strung between the two worlds, holding us aloft as we allow ourselves to risk belief in paradoxical truths: that in the poetic universe to which Gallagher holds fast, a loved one can be truly with us and truly not with us at once, and loss and horror and delight can coexist in a strange harmony. In Gallagher's extraordinary book, the dark basin of terrible loss is not only inhabited, it is rich in hues and textures and possibilities. Using images culled as much from her travels around the world with Carver as from her years spent both with and without him in the Pacific Northwest, with this volume Gallagher has given a rare gift to those of us with loss in our backgrounds. She has journeyed as a shaman does, to map that enduring human trek from overwhelming pathos to multidimensional, even joyful, insight -- with unfailing courage and honesty. One day Gallagher will be seen for the unparalleled talent she is. For now, we who read and do the work to understand her words can be among a privaleged group of fierce and well-rewarded fans.

1999-07-09 | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Amplitude: New and Selected Poems

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I never received this book.
I ordered this book a month and a half ago and I still have not received it.

2009-11-19 (Georgia) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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Poems Like Candles in the Darkness.....
I have to admit that I began reading and collecting Ms. Gallagher's poetry at first because she was Raymond Carver's lover and his poetry had broken my heart and put it back together again too many times to count. I know, I know, just because a woman beds a man does not mean she absorbs his talent by some sort of literary osmosis, but still.....I was not disappointed and am overjoyed to have acquired this early book of her poetry.

Her poems flow and float like clouds over a river with a gentle breeze blowing. I like this book even better than her later work. Each poet opens our eyes to a new world. It's a sort of rebirth. I highly recommend this book to all poetry lovers.

2008-06-17 | dragonfly80@hotmail.com (Louisiana) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Swept Away!
She has a voice I've never heard before that I've needed to hear for a long, long time. There is unflinching lucidity here and honesty. "Each Bird Walking" takes no prioners. "The Hug" is. "If Poetry Were Not a Morality" is my memory too. The Fireman from Brooklyn glitters with hard truth

2000-06-16 (Westport, CT) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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A lovely book!!!
This is one of my favorite books of poetry. Ms. Gallagher's style (phrasing, imagery) is very unique and her voice is both strong and delicate. You will not be disappointed with this book.

1999-07-31 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Powerful images, delicately written about
This book is a collection of poems from "Under Stars," "Instructions to the Double," "Willingly," and several dozen new poems. It's lovely, a joy to read. My favorites are from "Under Stars," and the poem "Under Stars," is worth the price of the book itself. Tess Gallagher's poems are stunning and strong, with such delicate phrasing. A must-read if you enjoy poetry.

1998-07-08 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry)

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Gallagher writes of contemporary poets and of the influences on her poetry

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At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories

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Tess Gallagher is best known as a distinguished poet. She also collaborated on the film Short Cuts, based on the short stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. But in this luminous collection of short stories -- her second -- she establishes herself as a fiction writer of the first order.

Set primarily in the Northwest, where the author was born and has lived for many years, these stories tell how people do more than cope with the hard turns and snares of their lives. We watch them take the unexpected next step as they face their dilemmas. Gallagher invents wholly original characters and renders them with lyrical intensity. As with the great short stories of Flannery O'Connor, Gallagher's prose animates the themes of love, human pain, and healing.

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great short stories
This collection of short stories is one of the best i have ever read. Mostly set in the northwest Gallagher captures the ideals and characteristics of most northwest residents. Her stories reflect the mindset of this part of the country. She writes about logging, wildlife, and just general everyday life. She is the best.

2000-07-25 (Moscow, Idaho USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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