Böcker av Tess Gallagher

Documents that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death

Tess Gallagher, one of America's most accomplished poets, presents Moon Crossing Bridge, her sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved, whose presence and absence are recalled in sombre lyrical rhythms and with a extraordinary range of expressions of love and sadness.Devoid of self-pity or illusion, yet full of dream and vision and wisdom, these beautifully intense and powerful poems bestow the gift of words to the widow's silence, to the silence of all who are muted by grief and loss. With this unusual volume, arranged in six carefully paced movements to suggest the journey from death to recovery, Gallagher charges language with its utmost responsibilities: here poetry aspires deeply and urgently beyond its cultural marginality to embrace the paradox of sharing unshareable pain and to assume again an Orphic voice and a communal necessity.

New collection of poems about beauty, death, time and contradiction by the esteemed American poet and prose writer Tess Gallagher, celebrating the two places where she has lived for the past four decades: the Northwest of America and the north-west of Ireland.

Large retrospective by one of America's leading poets, collecting her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland.

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.