Is, is not: poems

✍ Scribed by Gallagher, Tess

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books;Graywolf Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presents a collection of poems upending our notions of linear time, evoking the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovering at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Gallagher's poems reverberate with the inward clarity, guided by humor, grace, and a deep inquiry into the natural world, every poem nudges us toward moments of awe. Gallagher claims many Wests--the Northwest of America, the Northwest of Ireland, and a West even further to the edge, beyond the physical. These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people, living and dead, who shape Gallagher's poems and life. --Adapted from publisher description.

✦ 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.

✦ Subjects

American poetry;American poetry--21st century;Poetry;American poetry -- 21st century