Amplitude : new and selected poems / Tess Gallagher.
1987
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Title
Amplitude : new and selected poems / Tess Gallagher.
Author
ISBN
1555970990
9781555970994
1555971105 $q (softcover)
9781555970994
1555971105 $q (softcover)
Published
St. Paul, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 1987.
Copyright
©1987
Language
English
Description
199 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)17312955
Summary
Combining selections from three previous works with new poems, this volume reveals changes in the poet's style, tone, and perspective. In the early poems, clear and uncluttered speech is a deft anchor for a willingness to admit secrets from the invisible underside of events from her working class childhood. Gradually, the glint of absurdity or magic, the droll tunes of the plot, the pressure of concrete reality are overshadowed by concerns about the poet's role in social and political realities. The later poems include a new theme--political concerns and their relationship to the personal life--and a new tone revealing tenderness, acceptance, and celebration.
Formatted Contents Note
Instructions to the double: Kidnaper
Instructions to the double
Breasts
Woman who raised goats
Beginning to say no
Coming home
Black money
Clearing
Even now you are leaving
Coats
Horse in the drugstore
Cows, a vision
When you speak to me
Poem in translation
Stepping outside
Time lapse with tulips
Croce e Delizia al Cor
Calm
Corona
Zero
Snowheart
Rhododendrons
Under stars: Words written near a candle
Women's tug of war at Lough Arrow
Four dancers at an Irish wedding
Ritual of memories
As if it happened
On your own
Woman-enough
Ballard of Ballymote
Disappearances in the guarded sector
Open fire near a shed
Love poem to be read to an illiterate friend
Second language
Still moment at Dun Laoghaire
Ever after
Under stars
Meeting
Harmless streets
Same kiss after many years
Backdrop with lovers, 1931
My mother remembers that she was beautiful
Willingly: Sudden journey
Unsteady yellow
Bird-window-flying
I save your coat, but you lose it later
Hug
Devotion: That it flow; that there be concentration
Not there
Crepes Flambeau
Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn
Some with wings, some with Manes
View from an empty chair
Tableau Vivant
Reading aloud
From dread in the eyes of horses
Death of the horses by fire
3 A.M. kitchen: my father talking
Boat ride
Accomplishment
Black silk
Candle, lamp & firefly
Woodcutting on lost mountain
Some painful butterflies pass through
Gray Eyes
Linoleum
Willingly
Each bird walking
New poems: If poetry were not a morality
His shining helmet; its horsehair crest
Refusing silence
That king of thing
In Maceio
Sugar
If blood were not as powerful as it is
Redwing
With stars
Dim house, bright face
Borrowed ones
All day the light is clear
Their heads bent toward each other like flowers
Photograph of a lighthouse through fog
Small garden near a field
Present
Cougar meat
Message for the Sinecurist
Simple Sonatina
Story of a citizen
Survival of a heart
Into the known
Hands of the blindman
Rijl
Bonfire
Amplitude.
Instructions to the double
Breasts
Woman who raised goats
Beginning to say no
Coming home
Black money
Clearing
Even now you are leaving
Coats
Horse in the drugstore
Cows, a vision
When you speak to me
Poem in translation
Stepping outside
Time lapse with tulips
Croce e Delizia al Cor
Calm
Corona
Zero
Snowheart
Rhododendrons
Under stars: Words written near a candle
Women's tug of war at Lough Arrow
Four dancers at an Irish wedding
Ritual of memories
As if it happened
On your own
Woman-enough
Ballard of Ballymote
Disappearances in the guarded sector
Open fire near a shed
Love poem to be read to an illiterate friend
Second language
Still moment at Dun Laoghaire
Ever after
Under stars
Meeting
Harmless streets
Same kiss after many years
Backdrop with lovers, 1931
My mother remembers that she was beautiful
Willingly: Sudden journey
Unsteady yellow
Bird-window-flying
I save your coat, but you lose it later
Hug
Devotion: That it flow; that there be concentration
Not there
Crepes Flambeau
Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn
Some with wings, some with Manes
View from an empty chair
Tableau Vivant
Reading aloud
From dread in the eyes of horses
Death of the horses by fire
3 A.M. kitchen: my father talking
Boat ride
Accomplishment
Black silk
Candle, lamp & firefly
Woodcutting on lost mountain
Some painful butterflies pass through
Gray Eyes
Linoleum
Willingly
Each bird walking
New poems: If poetry were not a morality
His shining helmet; its horsehair crest
Refusing silence
That king of thing
In Maceio
Sugar
If blood were not as powerful as it is
Redwing
With stars
Dim house, bright face
Borrowed ones
All day the light is clear
Their heads bent toward each other like flowers
Photograph of a lighthouse through fog
Small garden near a field
Present
Cougar meat
Message for the Sinecurist
Simple Sonatina
Story of a citizen
Survival of a heart
Into the known
Hands of the blindman
Rijl
Bonfire
Amplitude.
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