Choices
Tess Gallagher, "Choices" from Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2011 by Tess Gallagher. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press.
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Poet Tess Gallagher b. 1943
POET’S REGION U.S., Northwestern
Subjects Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals
Biography
Poet, essayist, and short story writer Tess Gallagher was born in 1943 in Port Angeles, Washington, to a logging family. Her early years were marked by the rhythms of seasonal work, as well as the landscape of both the Northwest and the Ozarks, where her grandparents lived. “I don’t know how many children really get to explore vast amounts of territory like that,” she has said in interviews. “It builds something in you.” . . .
Poems by Tess Gallagher
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SUBJECT Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals
POET’S REGION U.S., Northwestern
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