Dear Ghosts,: Poems

"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

Time
to put our arms around each other's waists-my man,
my woman, my unapproachable dream.
-from "Dear Ghosts,"

In Dear Ghosts,-Tess Gallagher's seventh collection, now in paperback-
the ghosts of the past are conjured and communed with as part of the poet's present day: the deceased beloved, the father long ...