Moon Crossing Bridge

Tess Gallagher is a renowned poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright (her honors include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and two National Endowment for the Arts Awards). In Moon Crossing Bridge, Gallagher collects poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, author Raymond Carver.  

Praise

"These poems are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers—songs of love and loss, of pain and recovery . . . A brave, unsparing, searchingly considered lesson for and statement to those of us lucky enough to meet the author through this book."—Robert Coles

 

"Tess Gallagher's Moon Crossing Bridge celebrates the power of love, loss, mourning, and trancendence. Her poetry is powerful, complex, and accessible. It resonates for students, even those for whom poetry is a new and strange country."—Susan Preciso, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
 
"Moon Crossing Bridge was a wonderful addition to our reading list this quarter. It's both complex and accessible. Gallagher's work challenged our students' preconceptions about modern poetry, and empowered them to read more."—Marla Beth Elliott, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

About the Author(s)

Tess Gallagher

Tess Gallagher is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, and Amplitude: New and Selected Poems. She is also the author of Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry, and two collections of short fiction, At the Owl Woman Saloon and The Lover of Horses and Other Stories. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where she has completed the introduction to No Heroics, Please, the first of two volumes of The Uncollected Works of Raymond Carver, edited by William Stull.