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Tess Gallagher | | Variant Name: |
Tess Bond, Theresa Jeanette Bond | | Birth Date: |
July 21, 1943 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Tess Gallagher
6,493 words, approx. 22 pages
 Although Tess Gallagher has established her reputation primarily as a poet, she has also won increasing recognition as a writer of fiction with the publication of two short-story collections, The Lover of Horses and Other Stories (1986) and At the Owl... summary from source:
Biography of Tess Gallagher
6,033 words, approx. 20 pages
Like the versatile denizen of Hummingbird Mountain in her story "Venison Pie," Tess Gallagher is a contemporary hybrid. Deeply rooted in her native Washington State, Gallagher draws on the literature and culture of places as distant as Ireland, Eastern... summary from source:
Biography of Tess Gallagher
3,929 words, approx. 13 pages
The publication of Tess Gallagher's early poems coincided with a ground swell of feminist awareness and the birth of a new feminist literature in the United States. In addition to chronicling the emergence of a feminine identity, Gallagher's poems also... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Tess Gallagher Information
350 words, approx. 1 pages
 Tess Gallagher (b. 1943) is a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. Born in Port Angeles, Washington, she attended the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke and later Nelson Bentley as well as David...
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 The Independent - London Poetry: TESS GALLAGHER TROUBADOUR CAFE
06/16/1995: 405 words, approx. 1 pages "Let me just settle here in this corner like a cowgirl," said Tess Gallagher before she got on to talking about the BBC interviewer who seemed to have understood almost nothing about her poetry. "For God's sake, I've been writing poetry for 35 years,"... summary from source:
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Valerie Trueblood
482 words, approx. 2 pages
Instructions to the Double is a book about what Tess Gallagher calls the "true disguises" of the world, the way the world addresses us and what we see and hear instead. The poems are full of doubles: shadows, reflections in eyes and water and mirrors, resemblances ("Your neck, so / like hers", "each moon so like a moon"), photographs, a body's impression burnt onto bedsprings in a fire. These doubles attest to a hidden, static quality in what happens—i... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Krin Gabbard
478 words, approx. 2 pages
[In Instructions to the Double, Under Stars, and On Your Own, Tess Gallagher] consistently reaches into fresh, often startling reservoirs of experience and comes up with original, lucid verses. I am most impressed by the wide variety of subjects that Gallagher has investigated. "Two Stories" is about the murder of her uncle in 1972: it compares someone else's lurid account of the killing with her own perceptions…. In "Breasts," she dates the end of her childhood rap... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Davison
323 words, approx. 1 pages
[Tess Gallagher's] beautifully designed second book, Under Stars … shows her braving the most difficult of entanglements: unlike almost all other poets of her generation I have read, she faces up, in every line of her work, to the full engagement with language…. Her poems evince a syntactic regeneration, a new involvement with the processes and passage of time. Gallagher's work requires enough liveliness in the reader to follow her through facet after facet of grammatical inclina...
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