Celebrates the life and work of Raymond Carver, who died in August 1988. Text has been selected from Carver's unpublished letters and from short stories and poems by Tess Gallagher, Carver's wife.

Carver Country

Tess Gallagher

Picador

The Lover of Horses

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Minerva

One of 40 limited copies signed by Gallagher on the title page. Her sixth book.

Willingly

Poetry

Graywolf Press

Distant Rain records a conversation between the eloquent American poet Tess Gallagher and the renowned Japanese novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi that took place in 1990 at Jakuan, Setouchi's home temple, in Sagano, Japan. Gallagher had recently experienced the death of her husband, Raymond Carver, an internationally renowned short story writer. In a frank and at times humorous exchange, the two women trade observations about love and loss, and about the role of writing in coping with grief. Their words, reproduced in both English and Japanese, unfold accordion-style across the rich colors and striking imagery of artist Keiko Hara's wood-block and stencil prints. Complemented by the exquisite lettering of typographer Maki Yamashita and under the guidance of master bookbinder Atsuo Ikuta, Distant Rain is not only a moving tribute to the sustaining power of love but also a stunning example of the art of book design. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Distant Rain: A Conversation between Jakucho Setouchi and Tess Gallagher (English and Japanese Edition)

Jakuchō Setouchi

Arts & Photography

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Evergreen

Erin Malone

Linda Cooper

Dujie Tahat

Margot Kahn

Joe Wilkins

CMarie Fuhrman

kathryn-smith

Nicola Griffith

catherine-johnson

Richard Fifield

Rena Priest

Jennifer Marsh

Laura Read

Emma Noyes

Alexis M. Smith

Tiffany Midge

Gary Copeland Lilley

Kate Peterson

Lucia Perillo

Rick Barot

Beth Piatote

Taneum Bambrick

Erin Pringle

Shawn Vestal

Ruth Joffre

Kate Lebo

Elissa Ball

Elissa Washuta

David Naimon

Alexander Ortega

Ellen Welcker

Kathryn Nuernberger

Mita Mahato

Katrina Roberts

Tamara Love

Johanna Stoberock

Katharine Whitcomb

Dawn Pichón Barron

Anca L. Szilágyi

Tara Roberts

Shantell Jackson

Rachel Mehl

Nance Van Winckel

Leah Sottile

Derek Annis

Leyna Krow

Christopher Maccini

Seanse Ducken

David Allan Cates

Tim Greenup

J. Newell

Henrietta Goodman

Inga Laurent

Dayna Patterson

Tess Gallagher's new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty. Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and journeys toward discovering the full capacity of language. Gallagher's poems reverberate with the inward clarity of a bell struck on a mountaintop and hover daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Guided by humour, grace, and a deep inquiry into the natural world, every poem nudges us toward moments of awe. How else except by delight and velocity would we discover the miracle within the ordinary? Gallagher claims many Wests - the Northwest of America, the north-west of Ireland, and a West even further to the edge, beyond the physical. These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people, living and dead, who shape Gallagher's poems and life. Restorative in every sense, Is, Is Not is the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write - a book of the spirit made manifest by the poet's unrelenting gaze and her intimate engagement with the mysteries that keep us reaching.

Is, Is Not

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Dear Ghosts,

Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In Midnight Lantern she collects her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland. Included in this generous book are Gallagher's signature nocturnes - for the changing Pacific Northwest, for her tough childhood, and for her late husband, Raymond Carver, and others. Her challenging new work confronts a tumultuous century's worth of art, warfare, and illness, while certifying the stubborn resilience of poetry and love. Astonishing, insightful, mischievous, an inimitable 'seeing-into experience', Midnight Lantern is the essential a poet in the prime of her power.

Midnight Lantern: New & Selected Poems

Tell It All brings together an unexpected selection of Raymond Carver's unpublished writings. Poems that read like short stories and two one-act plays written with Tess Gallagher are included. Tell It All also features Raymond Carver recollected by other writers, translators and friends from around the globe. Also included is a rich album of rare previously unpublished photographs of Raymond Carver.

Tell It All

RAYMOND CARVER

LECONTE

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