Instructions to the Double: Poems

by Tess Gallagher

Book by Gallagher, Tess

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Tess Gallagher is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, and My Black Horse. She will release her collection of New and Selected Poems entitled Midnight Lantern in October 2011. Gallagher is also the author of Amplitude, Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry, and three collections of short fiction: At the Owl Woman Saloon, The Lover of Horses and Other Stories and The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories. She also spearheaded the publication of Raymond Carvers Beginners in Library of Americas complete collection of his stories released Fall 2009. She spends time in a cottage on Lough Arrow in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland and also lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington"

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

reading the 1976 graywolf press edition (their first full-length), one of 1500, hand-set & hand-printed. i've rarely felt this way about the physical form of a book? picked it up at a second-hand place in town & just, oh wow. anyway the poems are astounding, standing quiet & reading a few aloud before work every day lends a quiet for hours.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 G162i 1976

[Stephen Kiernan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This 1976 collection varies widely from poems that are jewels of language and image, to nearly private and difficult verse. A fine work that is not for beginners.