Is, Is Not - Couverture souple

Gallagher, Tess

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780374615 ISBN 13 : 9781780374611

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Tess Gallagher's new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty. Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and journeys toward discovering the full capacity of language. Gallagher's poems reverberate with the inward clarity of a bell struck on a mountaintop and hover daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Guided by humour, grace, and a deep inquiry into the natural world, every poem nudges us toward moments of awe. How else except by delight and velocity would we discover the miracle within the ordinary? Gallagher claims many Wests - the Northwest of America, the north-west 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. Restorative in every sense, Is, Is Not is the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write - a book of the spirit made manifest by the poet's unrelenting gaze and her intimate engagement with the mysteries that keep us reaching.

Revue de presse

The book itself is dedicated to two great loves (the American writer Raymond Carver, and the Irish painter and storyteller, Josie Gray) and its narratives echo through time... Beneath all the places, stories and loves, this poet finds that deep resonance of common essence. There is beauty and grief and humour here; there is a gentle wisdom; there is a quiet, incremental insight that sings us awake. I treasure these poems. --Jane Mead

This book is shocking, the more I read. It is generous and beguiling and dangerous, even! It reclaims the possibility of language to not reduce, but to take its cargo right to the threshold and beyond, toward mystery, the cosmos even! Every single poem surprises and delights, going further than you thought possible - easily, yet subtly, so you re in completely different heart-territory when you finish. It's museum, tabernacle and cottage hearth. It's poetry that affirms the great miracle and alchemy when language meets pure imagination. --Danielle Vermette

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1780374615
• ISBN 13: 9781780374611
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160