Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Jackie Kay With a surprising number of

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The poems all tell stories which include a transformation – some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time

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Is, Is Not by Tess Gallagher Jackie Kay With a surprising number ofTess 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