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  Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (Poets on Poetry (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Tess Gallagher, Edited by Simon Greg

  

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  Short Description for Soul BarnaclesDocuments that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death
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  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Published: 31 January 2003
  • Format: Paperback 264 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Poetry By Individual Poets | Literature: History & Criticism | Literary Studies: General | Gender Studies: Women
  • ISBN 13: 9780472089123 ISBN 10: 0472089129

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• This bittersweet collection of diary entries, memoirs, essays, letters, and poetry celebrates the marriage and literary partnership of the late fiction writer Raymond Carver (1938---1988) and the poet Tess Gallagher. "Soul Barnacles" is both literary history and love story, chronicling the way a surviving partner carries forward the life and work of her mate while pursuing her own life and literary endeavors. These essays, letters, and interviews, written after Carver's untimely death, explore the inextricable bonds that linked their lives and their writing.The book opens with excerpts from a journal of the couple's last trip to Europe and a selection of Gallaghers introductions to Carver's posthumous collections. The next section focuses primarily on Gallagher's engagement with the filming of Short Cuts, a film directed by Robert Altman and based on Carver's short stories. Gallagher's recounting provides a rare, quietly dramatic look at a poet's experience in Hollywood, determined to see the dignified transformation of one art form into another. Following are a number of interviews that touch on the grieving process, the solitude and intensity of a writer's life, and the ways in which Gallagher's relationship with Carver has continued to evolve, even after death. The collection, richly illustrated with photographs of Carver and Gallagher during their all-too-brief time together, ends with "I Asked That a Prayer," an original poem by Tess Gallagher, and a complete listing of the published work of this remarkable literary couple.Tess Gallagher's poetry collections include "Portable Kisses, Instructions to the Double, Moon Crossing Bridge, " and "Willingly." She is also author of the short-story collections "At the Owl Woman Saloon" and "The Lover of Horses" and the essay collection "A Concert of Tenses."