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Gallagher Tess
Dear Ghosts,: Poems
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"It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images." --Joyce Carol Oates Time to put our arms around each other’s waists—my man, my woman, my unapproachable dream. —from “Dear Ghosts,”
In Dear Ghosts,—Tess Gallagher’s seventh collection, now in paperback— the ghosts of the past are conjured and communed with as part of the poet’s present day: the deceased beloved, the father long dead, the ailing mother, the victims of holocaust and war. With these spirits beside her, Gallagher confronts her own illness and mortality and celebrates new love and friendship in these spare lyrics and sprawling narratives, each punctuated by her feisty resilience and signature grace.
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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
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
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
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
Willingly
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The Lover of Horses (The Graywolf Short Fiction Series)
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Powerful, elegant, simple, insightful
Gallagher's The Lover of Horses is an honest, yet graceful portrait of what makes us who we are. The title story shows the connection between human beings in a very powerful way. In my opinion this is the most well-written story in the text, demonstrative of Gallagher's immense talent in writing stories that are powerful because of their spareness. "Recourse" demonstrates the importance of living day-to-day. "The Woman Who Saved Jesse James" is a story about finding all the "selves" that we are and becoming the "self" we want to be. Each of these stories illustrates the process of interior evaluation we go through as humans. They ask "Which part of us is the essential self?" Gallagher opens up the power of choice and how this affects who we become. Each story connects with our "humanness", as we see that grace comes to the humans in Gallagher's stories, even in the most unexpected ways. Julia M. Hawley
2000-03-28
| avonleajules (Rochester, NY United States) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories
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Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, pain and healing. 15,000 first printing."
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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
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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.
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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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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Lansberry becomes Progressland's all-time strikeout queen - Clearfield Progress
Clearfield Progress, PA - May 07, 2009
Lansberry becomes Progressland's all-time strikeout queenAfter striking out the Damsels in the top of the first, Lansberry got her offense going in the bottom of the frame, belting a leadoff double against Mo Valley pitcher Kristin Gallagher. Tess Bloom knocked her in with a base hit to give the Lady Tide a Lansberry Sets All-time Strikeout Record During 8-0 No-hitter of Lady Tide's Lansberry Fires Two No-hitters in Sweep of Sheffiield
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CLASS OF 2009 - NH Broadcaster
NH Broadcaster, MA - May 22, 2009
CLASS OF 2009 Christopher Michael Cronin, Kathleen Cronin, Brenna Crawford Fraser, Tess Haleigh Gallagher, Allison Ann Mahoney, Lynda J. Manganello Walsh, Marie Elizabeth Polcari, Jennifer Rafferty, Audrey Elizabeth Sousa, Lynn M. Trudel, Sara Lyn Whitney.
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Dover-Sherborn High School Honor Roll - Dover-Sherborn Press
Dover-Sherborn Press, MA - May 13, 2009
Dover-Sherborn High School Honor Roll Philipp Gaissert, Emma Gallagher, Victoria Giaimo, Taylor Godfrey, Katheryn Goldman, Alexandra Goodearl, Rachel Grossbaum, Yichao Gu, Charlotte Guertler, Julia Hanmer, Nicole Haug, Natalie Heffernan, Tess Heffernan, Sharon Holiner, Nicole Huang,
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Tuesday's high school roundup - Connecticut Post
Connecticut Post, CT - May 20, 2009
Tuesday's high school roundupRecords: Ludlowe 1-10 Lauralton Hall 204, Staples 225 (at Race Brook CC, par 36): LH--Ali Armstrong 45, Alexa Gherlone 51, Katie Garvey 53, Katie Becker 55; S--Annie Parkinson 51, Sara Roessler 55, Tess Romero 57, Kacey Richards 62.
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Middle school honor roll - Ipswich Chronicle
Ipswich Chronicle, USA - May 10, 2009
Middle school honor rollHigh Honors: Tessa Amoroso, Linda Barg, Elliot Bates, Samuel Benford, Daniel Bennett, Jesse Brink, Margaret Brown, Lillian Cleary, Matthew DiBello, Emma Freeman, Analisa Friedman, Sarah Gallagher, Anna Gibbs, Zoe Gillette, Christopher Grady,
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Tess Gallagher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tess Gallagher (born 1943 in Port Angeles, Washington) is an American poet, essayist, author and playwright. ... Gallagher has taught at many colleges, most recently at Bucknell ...
Tess Gallagher : The Poetry Foundation : Find Poems and Poets ...
Tess Gallagher is ranked among America's finest contemporary poets. ... But Gallagher's main interest seems to be with comparisons of the self. As Valerie Trueblood notes in ...
Tess Gallagher- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Tess Gallagher, a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, was born in 1943 in Port Angeles, Washington. She received a Bachelor of Arts and Masters ...
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Tess Gallagher was born and raised between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic ... Gallagher's writing, however, moves beyond feminine words to express ...
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