Moon Crossing Bridge Poetry

by Gallagher, Tess

• ISBN13: 9781555971564
• ISBN10: 1555971563
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Tess Gallagher's stunning new poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver.

Author Biography

Tess Gallagher's previous publications include Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, A Concert of Tenses (essays on poetry), and The Lover of Horses and Other Stories. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where she has recently completed the introduction to No Heroics, Please, the first of two volumes of The Uncollected Works of Raymond Carver.

Table of Contents

Yes	p. 3
Red Poppy	p. 4
Wake	p. 5
Corpse Cradle	p. 6
Reading the Waterfall	p. 7
Trace, in Unison	p. 9
Black Pudding	p. 10
Now that I Am Never Alone	p. 12
Legend with Sea Breeze	p. 13
Souvenir	p. 15
Embers	p. 19
Two of Anything	p. 20
Sad Moments	p. 22
Ring	p. 24
He Would Have	p. 26
Thieves at the Grave	p. 27
Cold Crescent	p. 29
After the Chinese	p. 30
Black Valentine	p. 33
Quiver	p. 34
Fresh Stain	p. 36
Rain-soaked Valentine	p. 37
Crazy Menu	p. 38
Posthumous Valentine	p. 40
Strange Thanksgiving	p. 41
Meeting beyond Meeting	p. 43
Magenta Valentine	p. 44
Valentine Delivered by a Raven	p. 45
Paradise	p. 49
Ebony	p. 50
Fathomless	p. 51
Breeze	p. 52
Deaf Poem	p. 53
We're All Pharaohs When We Die	p. 55
Moon Crossing Bridge	p. 59
Spacious Encounter	p. 60
Anniversary	p. 62
I Stop Writing the Poem	p. 64
Cherry Blossoms	p. 65
Knotted Letter	p. 67
I Put On My New Spring Robe	p. 69
Northwest by Northwest	p. 70
Picking Bones	p. 71
Blue Grapes	p. 73
At The-Place-of-Sadness	p. 74
A Dusky Glow at Glenstaughey	p. 75
Close to Me Now	p. 76
Infinite Room	p. 77
Two Locked Shadows	p. 78
Glow	p. 79
Un Extrano	p. 83
Incomprehensibly	p. 85
I Don't Know You	p. 87
While I Sit in a Sunny Place	p. 89
The Forest She Was Trying to Say	p. 90
Sea Inside the Sea	p. 92
Kisses from the Inside	p. 94
A Light that Works Itself into the Mind	p. 95
If This New Love Ends	p. 96
Near, As All that Is Lost	p. 98
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