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Books : Literature & Fiction : Poetry : Poets, A-Z : ( G ) : Gallagher, Tess
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Raymond Carver, author of Where I'm Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how in the time left to him. The sixty-odd poems in this collection are linked by Carver with selections from other writers, most notably Chekhov, whose work was an inspiration and a guide, and by the cumulative force of the life and death questions he poses in them. As Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet guided countless readers discovering their true love and work, Carver's book will guide those in the process of celebrating a limited life and mourning the inescapable end of it. A New Path to the Waterfall is an essential book for those who admire Carver's work, and testament to the transcendent strength of the human spirit. In her introductory essay, Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion and fellow writer, lays out the circumstances of their last years together with matter-of-fact grace.
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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.
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a poem, illustrations by Marilyn Maricle
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Poets included: Marvin Bell, Reginald Gibbons, Robert Bly, Tony Hoagland, Marianne Boruch, Gail Mazur, Kevin Stein, Jeffrey Skinner, Dorianne Lux, Kim Addonizio, and many more.
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Romanian poet whose rich, spiritual, and sensual poems are comparable to those of Anna Akhmatova. Her poems yield a humanly political veracity which does not accede to cynicism, but seem to have witnessed with a clear gaze what had befallen her country, its people....She writes from a religious soul and the sustaining elements of her poems arise from ritual and humility, from tenacious, mindful suffering, and deeply held religious practices and belief. Her voice is impetuous and full of a rushing audacity that can stab the consciousness by suddenly becoming stark and acute"" - Tess Gallagher.
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Gallagher writes of contemporary poets and of the influences on her poetry
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