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L'amor llavors, l'amor en aquell precís instant, l'amor ara mateix. L'amor quan et trobes i l'amor quan et perds. L'amor camí de la fleca. L'amor Belmondo. L'amor Delon. L'amor lladre amb un cavall i una ala delta. L'amor cruel. L'amor rosa. L'amor i l'anís del mono amb ragtime blues i una mica de swing. L'amor i el teu nom tan lluny tan a prop tan aquí mateix. L'amor de vegades, l'amor algunes vegades, l'amor gairebé mai. L'amor després. L'amor escrit a llapis en un tros de paper. L'amor i la lluna amb avions i gats. L'amor quan trigues. L'amor feliç. Les miques de l'amor. L'amor i les cartes els telèfons els mails. L'amor amb aigua de riu i una mica de no res. Llavors en aquell precís instat ara mateix , el darrer llibre d'en Francesc Macià i Barrado, és això, només això: Uns contes d'amor. Uns poemes.
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"The Lover of Horses
Tess Gallagher
"[Tess Gallagher is] an excellent writer of prose who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger."--Bette Pesetsky, "New York Times Book Review
"In this debut collection poet Tess Gallagher shows herself to be a compelling teller of tales. She has a fine ear, a fine eye, and a magician's impeccable timing."--Judith Foosaner, "Los Angeles Times
"The day-to-day lives in "The Lover of Horses are mined wth small, extraordinary moments of epiphany and unsettling insight."--Elizabeth Alexander, "Washington Post Book World
Tess Gallagher's previous publications include "Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, "A Concert of Tenses (essays on poetry), and "Moon Crossing Bridge. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where she has recently completed the introduction to "No Heroics, Please, the first of two volumes of "The Uncollected Works of Raymond Carver, edited by William Stull.
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Tess Gallagher 's previous publications include Amplitude: New and Selected Poems , A Concert of Tenses (essays on poetry), and Moon Crossing Bridge . She lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where she has recently completed the introduction to No Heroics, Please , the first of two volumes of The Uncollected Works of Raymond Carver , edited by William Stull.
Reviews (2)
Kirkus Review
Poet Gallagher doesn't yet seem firmly fixed on what she'd like a short story to do; so far, as evidenced here, she's settling for odd but inert and not terribly dimensioned portraiture mostly, only very rarely allowing in any conflict or eccentric license. In ""Recourse,"" a tawdry marriage's dissolution is described, but Gallagher--as she does elsewhere--gives it distance by using a less-than-fully involved narrator, as though this sense of looking through a half-smudged window gives the story more mystery. In the title story--family oddities preserved as talismanic characteristics--an overwhelming sense of metaphor beats heavily down (not so uncommon a fault in the prose of poets). In ""The Wimp,"" a woman finds her own unflattering analysis of her husband's personality deeply threatening, needing to be strenuously denied. Yet in these and others you feel precious little authorial emotional involvement with the subject matter. That's distinctly not the case with the best two pieces here: ""Beneficaries""--a childless wife's hurt when her husband names his children from a former marriage as the beneficaries of an insurance policy--and ""Girls""--an old woman and her daughter paying a visit to a long. ago friend of the old woman's--and the visitant has no idea who's come; she's pleasant, even friendly, but she just can't place this importunate, needy visiting stranger. This story especially serves as a possible direction-arrow for Gallagher's work in the future; there's a sweet, warm, improbably stubborn humor here that's done very nicely. Drama (or comedy) is what the other stories lack--but in these two they're allowed to wriggle at will. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
In Gallagher's new collection we enter the working class world depicted by Dreiser and Farrell and, more recently, by Bobbie Ann Mason and Russell Banks. Gallagher finds her characters in laundromats and trailer parks, picking them up at a moment of revelation when suddenly the air is cleared by a profound understanding that cannot change anything. In ``Bad Company'' Mrs. Herbert, bringing flowers to her husband's grave, confides in a young woman she has met in the cemetery. In doing so she realizes how completely she had shut her husband out of her life. In ``Girls'' Ada is reunited with Esther, once her best friend. But Esther doesn't remember Ada, who comes to realize that her past has drifted away irreparably. These finely crafted stories, authentic in every detail, deal with constricted, confined lives in an unemotional yet compassionate manner. Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| The Lover of Horses |
| Tess Gallagher ""[Tess Gallagher is] an excellent writer of prose |
| who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and lingerBette Pesetsky |
| New York Times Book Review |
| In this debut collection poet Tess Gallagher shows herself to be a compelling teller of tales |
| She has a fine ear, a fine eye, and a magician's impeccable timingJudith Foosaner |
| Los Angeles Times ""The day-to-day lives in The Lover of Horses are mined wth small, extraordinary moments of epiphany |
