Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf 2014) and The Man Alone:

2014) and The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008)

as in his favourite quotation from David Jones

which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools'

and Montale

conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration

Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf 2014) and The Man Alone:Tess Gallaghers 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. Gallaghers 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