Bibliograph

Dear ghosts, poems, by Tess Gallagher

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Dear ghosts, poems, by Tess Gallagher

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Dear ghosts

Oclc number

67711651

Responsibility statement

by Tess Gallagher

Sub title

poems

Summary

The long-awaited and resplendent new poetry collection by Tess Gallagher, whose poems "are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers" (Robert Coles) "" "Don' t sharpen them. Expectation, more dangerous than any blade. - " Knives in the Borrowed House" " Fourteen years after "Moon Crossing Bridge"--Tess Gallagher' s powerful elegies for her husband, Raymond Carver- "Dear Ghosts," is the return of Gallagher' s unequivocal voice. In these new poems, the ghosts of the past are conjured as part of the 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 love and friendship in these spare lyrics and muscular narratives, each punctuated by her resilience and grace. Here is the new work by one of America' s most accomplished poets

Table Of Contents

My unopened life -- Not a sparrow -- Sah Sin -- A stroke of sky -- Sayonara, baby -- The dogs of Bucharest -- Choices -- Irish weather -- Brushing fate -- After looking at property in a busy Irish town -- Sugarcane -- Knives in the borrowed house -- I have never wanted to march -- Weather report -- Eternal -- The women of Auschwitz -- Lady Betty -- Offering -- Little match box -- Fire starter -- Lie down with the lamb -- What the new day is for -- Heart-mirror -- Orange sutra -- You are like that, -- Apparition -- Unspoken -- The rooster crows -- Black beauty -- Dream doughnuts -- Urgent story -- Moon's rainbow body -- Dear ghosts, -- Emanation of the red child -- Cairo moon -- Across the border -- She wipes out time -- The violence of unseen forms -- Behave -- Oil spot -- Cultivation -- In lilac-light -- Water walking -- I asked that a prayer -- Surgeon -- The red devil -- Sky house -- Buddha alcove -- Bull's eye -- Remains -- With Setouchi-san in Kyoto -- Walking meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh -- Sixteenth anniversary -- Comeback -- Death's ink

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