Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls [Paperback]

John Gallaher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2001

Single author collection of poetry.

Editorial Reviews

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Neither pretending wholeness nor embracing fragmented language as if it were good enough... a powerful new kind of poem. -- Bin Ramke

The poem ... where we play out certain varieties of suburban anxieties. -- George Hartley

About the Author

John Gallaher was born in Portland, Oregon in 1965. Just prior to his fourth birthday he was adopted, and has spent much of the last three decades living in various suburbs in Kansas, California, Alabama, Long Island, Texas, Arkansas, and Ohio. He studied at Southwest Texas State University (MFA) and Ohio University (Ph.D), where he worked for a time as Assistant Editor of The Ohio Review.

Product Details

• Paperback: 75 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (June 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881471756
• ISBN-13: 978-1881471752
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,715,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Debut, March 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Paperback)

Dedicated readers of poetry should rejoice in this first collection from John Gallaher. Artfully complex and quietly resonant, these poems, like still-lifes, take their time exploring, exposing, appreciating and interrogating the overly-busy, overly-peopled, and overly-interpreted world from which they spring. Strains of Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and even Jorie Graham can be detected in Gallaher's voice, but his project, his perspective, and his wit are ultimately and unmistakably unique. Debut collections as sophisticated and as accomplished as this one are rare. Don't miss it!

5.0 out of 5 stars wow!, April 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Paperback)

When I stumbled across this book of poetry by J.J. Gallaher I really felt it in the shins. His world of coffee tables and shrubs, stolen moments and love, seems truer, more essentially precious than anything I've read by a young poet in quite some time. These poems are points in time seized by his crisp, clear language; and seized with it are the emotions and thoughts and anxieties and grins and glances and sorrows that I go to poetry for. This is the inner life shared, it hits home.