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Gallagher, Tess.

Amplitude : new and selected poems / Tess Gallagher.

St. Paul : Graywolf Press, 1987.

199 pages ; 24 cm

Combining selections from three previous works with new poems, this volume reveals changes in the poet's style, tone, and perspective. In the early poems, clear and uncluttered speech is a deft anchor for a willingness to admit secrets from the invisible underside of events from her working class childhood. Gradually, the glint of absurdity or magic, the droll tunes of the plot, the pressure of concrete reality are overshadowed by concerns about the poet's role in social and political realities. The later poems include a new theme--political concerns and their relationship to the personal life--and a new tone revealing tenderness, acceptance, and celebration. ISBN 1-55597-099-0: $16.00.

Poetry -- Women authors.

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Instructions to the double: Kidnaper -- Instructions to the double -- Breasts -- Woman who raised goats -- Beginning to say no -- Coming home -- Black money -- Clearing -- Even now you are leaving -- Coats -- Horse in the drugstore -- Cows, a vision -- When you speak to me -- Poem in translation -- Stepping outside -- Time lapse with tulips -- Croce e Delizia al Cor -- Calm -- Corona -- Zero -- Snowheart -- Rhododendrons -- Under stars: Words written near a candle -- Women's tug of war at Lough Arrow -- Four dancers at an Irish wedding -- Ritual of memories -- As if it happened -- On your own -- Woman-enough -- Ballard of Ballymote -- Disappearances in the guarded sector -- Open fire near a shed -- Love poem to be read to an illiterate friend -- Second language -- Still moment at Dun Laoghaire -- Ever after -- Under stars -- Meeting -- Harmless streets -- Same kiss after many years -- Backdrop with lovers, 1931 -- My mother remembers that she was beautiful -- Willingly: Sudden journey -- Unsteady yellow -- Bird-window-flying -- I save your coat, but you lose it later -- Hug -- Devotion: That it flow; that there be concentration -- Not there -- Crepes Flambeau -- Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn -- Some with wings, some with Manes -- View from an empty chair -- Tableau Vivant -- Reading aloud -- From dread in the eyes of horses -- Death of the horses by fire -- 3 A.M. kitchen: my father talking -- Boat ride -- Accomplishment -- Black silk -- Candle, lamp & firefly -- Woodcutting on lost mountain -- Some painful butterflies pass through -- Gray Eyes -- Linoleum -- Willingly -- Each bird walking -- New poems: If poetry were not a morality -- His shining helmet; its horsehair crest -- Refusing silence -- That king of thing -- In Maceio -- Sugar -- If blood were not as powerful as it is -- Redwing -- With stars -- Dim house, bright face -- Borrowed ones -- All day the light is clear -- Their heads bent toward each other like flowers -- Photograph of a lighthouse through fog -- Small garden near a field -- Present -- Cougar meat -- Message for the Sinecurist -- Simple Sonatina -- Story of a citizen -- Survival of a heart -- Into the known -- Hands of the blindman -- Rijl -- Bonfire -- Amplitude.

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