Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf as in his favourite quotation

as in his favourite quotation from David Jones

and he resists the temptations of literary abstraction as much as he refuses to stop at mere quotidian observation

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

conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration

This collection

Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf as in his favourite quotationTess 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