Tess Gallagher’s ninth volume of poetry, Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, is out from Graywolf Press and from Bloodaxe Press in England. Other poetry includes Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, and Amplitude. Her A Path to the Sea, translations of Liliana Ursu’s by Adam Sorkin, Ms. Gallagher and Ms. Ursu came out September 2011. Gallagher’s The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories
Poetry
Spring 2006
The Violence of Unseen Forms
…oh how I long just once to feelthe hand within me that throws larks so high into the sky—letter from Rilke Can one soul consumeanother? Or does asking violatethe notion: […]
Poetry
Spring 2006
Heart-Mirror
A little spit on the heart-mirror—like my father, the gambler,spitting into his palmsthen rubbing them togetherbefore he lets gothe dice. I am rollingthrough the starsjust thinking about it.And my heart, […]
Poetry
Spring 2006
Offering
Before hunting seasonJosie prunes the apple trees.Leave the branches where theyfall, I say, having seen at duskthe tensile lips of the deerreaching up. Day into dusk andthe sign of their […]
Fiction
Spring 1997
My Gun
I am thirty-eight, have straight teeth and good hygiene. When those from the thin-is-godly camp look me over like I should lose a pound or two, I tell them, “Sorry. […]
Poetry
Summer 2003
Pilgrimage to Outeiro
From the Romanian. A flock of sheep drifts lazily down the hill toward the sea. A boy with an angel on his shoulder plays the shepherd’s pipe—exactly the landscape […]
Weekend Reads
My Gun
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1997, Vol. XIX, No. 2 I am thirty-eight, have straight teeth and good hygiene. When those from the thin-is-godly camp look me over […]