Reviews for Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999

The average rating for Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-20 00:00:00 Vincent Ruscavage I STOP WRITING THE POEM to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done. p. 64 I have known of this poem for Gallagher for awhile. I had no idea, until I picked up this collection, that she had written it after her husband died. For me, there is added poignancy now to her words. I am not sure I would have any words if my husband had died. This whole collection is wonderful. I had to read the poems slowly and over and over again, but that is me, not Gallagher. Her words are so carefully chosen and so beautiful. April is National Poetry month. I should have gotten to more poetry, but time got away from me. At least I read these poems. If you haven't read Gallagher, I highly recommend her.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-11 00:00:00 Stefani Vaz de Lima When Tess Gallagher is good, she's REALLY good. Some stunning insights and breathtaking writing. Packed with carefully constructed poems about grief and mourning. However, when Tess is not good, it's tough. At times, I got lost in convoluted sentences or abstractions (a sin I am often guilty of in my writing, and now, having read her, I can see why people read them and say tsk, tsk.) However, a book that is WELL WORTH picking up. She looks at the world in wonderful ways.