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Dear Ghosts
Tess Gallagher
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Description for Dear Ghosts
Paperback. Looks at the author's ghosts of the past - including her late husband, Raymond Carver, and her parents, as well as victims of holocaust and wars - at the same time as she confronts her own illness and mortality, and celebrates love and friendship. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 304.
Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In "Dear Ghosts" she communes with ghosts of the past - including her late husband, Raymond Carver, and her parents, as well as victims of holocaust and past and present wars - at the same time as she confronts her own illness and mortality, and celebrates love and friendship. 'Gallagher, a cherished poet and short story writer, evokes the power of the unseen as well as the seen with breathtaking clarity, creating metaphors so surprising, radiant, and apt that the world seems to expand in their wake...Substantial yet lambent, earthy and spiritual, ... Read more
Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In "Dear Ghosts" she communes with ghosts of the past - including her late husband, Raymond Carver, and her parents, as well as victims of holocaust and past and present wars - at the same time as she confronts her own illness and mortality, and celebrates love and friendship. 'Gallagher, a cherished poet and short story writer, evokes the power of the unseen as well as the seen with breathtaking clarity, creating metaphors so surprising, radiant, and apt that the world seems to expand in their wake...Substantial yet lambent, earthy and spiritual, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247645
SKU
9781852247645
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About Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and playwright. She has published many books, including five poetry titles in Britain with Bloodaxe, most recently Midnight Lantern: New & Selected Poems (2012), and her later collection, Is Is Not (2019). She has published two collections of stories, The Lover of Horses (1986) and At the Owl Woman Saloon (1997), and ... Read more
Reviews for Dear Ghosts
"Here is . . . Tess Gallagher's rich, striking, new collection "Dear Ghosts, ". The comma in her title emphasizes how elegiac the book is, addressed to ghosts of various kinds and degrees of intimacy."
ROBERT PINSKY, "The Washington Post ""So compelling are Gallagher's graceful poems, they leave the reader feeling 'rearranged from the cells out.'"
"Booklist "(starred review)
ROBERT PINSKY, "The Washington Post ""So compelling are Gallagher's graceful poems, they leave the reader feeling 'rearranged from the cells out.'"
"Booklist "(starred review)