Books by Tess Gallagher and Complete Book Reviews
Tess Gallagher, Author . Graywolf $20 (140p) ISBN 978-1-55597-443-5
Gallagher's big, emotion-rich volume is her first in 14 years: she enjoys dual reputations as an accessible, likable maker of verse about scenes and spaces in women's lives (somewhat like Jane Hirshfeld or Mary Oliver) and as the widow of...
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Tess Gallagher, Author . Graywolf $15 (249p) ISBN 978-1-55597-537-1
Poet Gallagher, encouraged into fiction by her third husband, short story master Raymond Carver, has published two prior collections—The Lover of Horses
and At the Owl Woman Saloon
. The present collection culls from those works; a standout...
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Tess Gallagher, Author Graywolf Press $17 (128p) ISBN 978-1-55597-156-4
Gallagher's ( Amplitude ) new collection is dedicated to her husband, Raymond Carver, who died of cancer in 1988. One cannot help being moved by the emotion that grounds the work, even if the poems sometimes affect us more because of what lies...
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Tess Gallagher, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-82693-6
Set primarily in the Pacific Northwest, this enchanting collection of 16 occasionally interconnected stories by poet Gallagher (The Lover of Horses and Other Stories) is enlivened by an assortment of beguiling characters. ""To Dream of Bears""...
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Tess Gallagher. Graywolf, $16 (160p) ISBN 978-1-55597-841-9
The new book from Gallagher (Midnight Lantern) uses imagery to ask compelling philosophical questions: Does reality exist within the mind or outside of it? What is the moral obligation of beauty, if any? Does time proceed in a linear fashion? While...
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