Is, is not : poems /
Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Tess Gallagher's poems reverberate with the inward clarity of a bell s...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Recognition
- I. In the company of flowers
- Almost lost moment
- Ambition
- Your dog playing with a coyote
- Ability to hold territory
- Blind dog/seeing girl
- Doe browsing salal berries
- II. Little inside out dream
- Dream cancel
- Stolen dress
- Glass impresses
- Hummingbird-mind
- One deer at dusk
- III. Correction
- Sully
- Retroactive father
- Earth
- The seemingly domesticated
- Reaching
- Right-minded person
- In the too-bright café
- IV. Let's store these hours
- Season of burnt-out candelabras
- The branches of the maple
- Yet to be born weather
- I want to be loved like somebody's beloved dog in America
- While I was away
- V. Without
- Deer path enigma
- The favorite cup
- What does it say
- VI. Bus to Belfast
- Is, is not
- As the diamond
- During the Montenegrin poetry reading
- Curfew
- Eddie's steps
- Four-footed
- The gold dust of the linden trees
- Blue eyelid lifting
- VII. Button, button
- Breath
- To an Irishman painting in the rain
- Encounter
- Planet Greece
- Cloud-path
- VIII. Oliver
- A "sit" with Eileen
- Remembering each other while together
- Opening
- Word of mouth
- Daylong visitor
- Caress
- March moon
- Three stars
- Afterword. Writing from the edge: a poet of two Northwests.