Product Description: "It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images." --Joyce Carol Oates Timeto put our arms around each other's waists―my man,my woman, my unapproachable dream...read more

Product Description: Distant Rain records a conversation between the eloquent American poet Tess Gallagher and the renowned Japanese novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi that took place in 1990 at Jakuan, Setouchi's home temple, in Sagano, Japan...read more

This bittersweet collection of diary entries, memoirs, essays, letters, and poetry celebrates the marriage and literary partnership of the late fiction writer Raymond Carver (1938---1988) and the poet Tess Gallagher. Soul Barnacles is both literary history and love story, chronicling the way a surviving partner carries forward the life and work of her mate while pursuing her own life and literary endeavors. These essays, letters, and interviews, written after Carver's untimely death, explore the inextricable bonds that linked their lives and their writing.The book opens with excerpts from a journal of the couple's last trip to Europe and a selection of Gallaghers introductions to Carver's posthumous collections. The next section focuses primarily on Gallagher's engagement with the filming of Short Cuts, a film directed by Robert Altman and based on Carver's short stories. Gallagher's recounting provides a rare, quietly dramatic look at a poet's experience in Hollywood, determined to see the dignified transformation of one art form into another. Following are a number of interviews that touch on the grieving process, the solitude and intensity of a writer's life, and the ways in which Gallagher's relationship with Carver has continued to evolve, even after death. The collection, richly illustrated with photographs of Carver and Gallagher during their all-too-brief time together, ends with "I Asked That a Prayer," an original poem by Tess Gallagher, and a complete listing of the published work of this remarkable literary couple.Tess Gallagher's poetry collections include Portable Kisses, Instructions to the Double, Moon Crossing Bridge, and Willingly. She is also author of the short-story collections At the Owl Woman Saloon and The Lover of Horses and the essay collection A Concert of Tenses.

An anthology of prose by the late author of All of Us includes all of the prose collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and five short stories, found among Carver's papers a decade following his death. Original. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, and pain and healing (view table of contents)

Product Description: 'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss', says American poet Tess Gallagher. This text is a collection of playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses.

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The widow of celebrated poet Raymond Carver shares her own resonant verses, the writing of which helped her to come to terms with the loss of her husband

Product Description: 'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss', says American poet Tess Gallagher. This text is a collection of playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses.

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Poems consider women's roles in society, childhood, home, nature, language, communications, the past, and mortality

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This collection of stories of rural American life captures the subtle collisions between the banal and the extraordinary, and the anarchic and the conventional

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