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Gallagher follows Petrarch, who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates ‘book hunters’ of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. The world changed when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things in a Benedictine library. Lucretius’s poem is a meditation of the universe as infinite numbers of atoms wandering randomly through space with no master plan whatsoever. The book birthed humanist philosophy, masterworks such as the Birth of Venus, and inspirations for Galileo Galilei. When Galileo’s patrons the powerful Medici rose to the Papacy, they chose their power over science and reason—sentencing and silencing Galileo for life for proving that the earth revolved around the sun. Digging with his pen, Gallagher brings these stories back in ‘talking sonnets,’ as if ditching the Latin for the more colloquial Italian of the people that came into form during the era. Upon his sentencing, Galileo’s is said to have uttered ‘Eppur si muove, ' knowing that the truth would eventually prevail. Purchase here from MadHat. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/the-wild-goose monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/15f576a8-2b6d-49e6-9734-04e87d71ba3b/Wild%2BGoose%2BBook%2BCover.jpeg Books - The Wild Goose - Loom Press, 2022 Purchase here from Loom Press. The Wild Goose was a hand-made magazine of verse written and edited by John Boyle O’Reilly aboard the Hougoumont, the last ship to transport British convicts to Australia. O’Reilly (1844-1890) was an Irish Fenian sentenced to life imprisonment for infiltrating the British army and attempted mutiny. O’Reilly escaped from Australia aboard a whaling ship and settled in Boston where he rose to become an editor of The Pilot, a noted poet, and abolitionist. In a sense, these poems are a little magazine conceived of and drafted in 2018 and 2019 when Gallagher was a poet-in-residence at the Heinrich Boll Cottage, on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. In addition to a sequence on O’Reilly, the poems in this book engage the Irish landscape, and the history and myth that formed the identity of some of the Gallagher’s ancestors until British colonialism and associated famine took them to Massachusetts. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/the-apprentice-from-drogheda-john-boyle-oreilly monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/66f54c40-1f47-4b5f-95f7-e0485ea7cfed/ACH-gallagher.jpeg Books - The Apprentice from Drogheda John Boyle O'Reilly - Red Fox Press, 2019 Purchase here from Red Fox Press. A poem written during a stay in 2019 at the Heinrich Böll Cottage. A facsimile of a collage of poems using a typewriter on white paper and old photographs on a vintage blanc writer's journal from Folens. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/radio-plays monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/f3fe6542-9af8-431d-887c-28c1f40069ac/radioplays.jpg Books - Radio Plays - Dos Madres Press, 2019 Purchase here from Dos Madres Press. These radio poems are ‘talking sonnets’ in the American grain. While they are ‘sonnets’ that echo the Italian and to a lesser extent the English versions of the form, they are more analogous to the ‘talking blues’ of John Lee Hooker, the Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan. The talking blues brought projective verse to the more formal and imported blues ‘ballad’ and hit a peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s America. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/ceremonial-entries-1 monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/271bca3b-096d-41e1-b235-584d65d8a411/CEREMONIAL_ENTRIES.jpeg Books - CEREMONIAL ENTRIES - Červená Barva Press, 2019 by Joseph DeRoche Edited by Kevin Gallagher and Martha Collins Purchase here from Červená Barva Press. “With razor-sharp wit and élan, Joseph DeRoche's poems remind us that revelation is never easy-that it often comes at great cost as we "loat to Paradise / In a slaughter / Of small things." DeRoche's poems are as formally taut as they are conversationally playful. His impeccable, architectural eye for detail creates a language that unmakes and reshapes the coercive structures that constrict our speech. In poems that delightfully blur the boundary between body and spirit, the individual human utterance becomes "an ordering / Against the furious weather / Of the world’s silence." Thanks to editors Kevin Gallagher and Martha Collins, a new generation of readers will now have the opportunity to experience the lyric grace and benevolence of DeRoche's brilliant poems.” -Tony Trigilio, author of The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 1 https://www.spokeboston.com/books/loom monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/1655135746500-BJVKNS0LKQLUP7Q7U63K/Loom.jpg Books - Loom - MadHat Press, 2016 Purchase here from MadHat Press. Loom is concerned with the history of our divided country, a violent division preceding civil war and by now embedded in our cultural landscape. The non-sentimental poems are cool, clear and literal. They are narrated by white Americans who position themselves in relation to “slave power” and cotton as “lords of the loom” and “lords of the lash”. Boston is central to the story, and the cities of Lawrence and Lowell. It’s a valuable collection, as it puts the focus back on the white male where the distortion of vision begins and is occasionally resolved. —Fanny Howe, winner of the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize and National Book Award Finalist https://www.spokeboston.com/books/come-over-and-help-us monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/1665068594713-812OIXG42UVEF2JPC0CN/Comeover.jpg Books - Come Over and Help Us - Kelsay Books, 2014 Purchase here from Kelsay Books. In Come Over and Help Us Gallagher takes us on a wild, timely and wonderful ride. Think of an afternoon with William Blake, Emily Dickinson, and John Wheelwright perhaps with a whiff of tea or whisky in the air! “Kevin Gallagher is a poet and a rebel of the very best kind!” Kevin Bowen https://www.spokeboston.com/books/ceremonial-entries monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/6b87f645-0c44-4dcc-b374-62733685db9d/gringo_guadalupe.jpg Books - Gringo Guadalupe - Ibbetson Press, 2009 Purchase here from Lulu. Kevin Gallagher's poetry is a rare synthesis of great poetic traditions that puts particular emphasis on the image and the lyric blended with a uniquely personalized iconoclasticism. His is a perpetual pursuit to make it new. - Anastasios Kozaitis https://www.spokeboston.com/books/gringo-guadalupe monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/1655136658103-W2FF6KG8COUOTA4SP3NF/texcoco.jpg Books - Looking for Lake Texcoco - Cy Gist Press, 2008 Purchase here from Cy Gist Press. These poems are a variation sequence evoking the painting “La Cuidad de Mexico, 1949” by Juan O’Gorman, an Irish-Mexican painter who lived in Mexico (1905-1982). The painting, now at the Museo Arte de Moderno in Mexico City, is a bird’s eye view of Mexico City during its transformation into a modern city. In the foreground, two hands hold a map known as the Santa Cruz map, which represents the colonial city being built on top of the ruins of the pre-Hispanic era. In the top right of the painting two angels carry a Mexican flag bearing the legend "Viva Mexico.” Alongside Gallagher’s English is a Spanish-language translation by Guillermo Parra, author of Caracas Notebook. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/isolate-flects monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/1655136681632-MSP3WG0RB806X33GPJWG/IsolateFlecks155x248.jpg Books - Isolate Flects - Červená Barva Press, 2008 Purchase here from Červená Barva Press. In William Carlos William's poem, 'To Elsie" he says "It is only in isolate flecks that something is given off" This first chapbook holds forty pages of 'isolate' poetry that hopefully gives. https://www.spokeboston.com/books/greatest-hits-12-years-of-compost-magazine monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a63e5fe89b7731c48f934e/b92d070a-765b-49a5-bc62-842f60a2bfef/compost+greatest+hits.jpg Books - Greatest Hits: 12 Years of Compost Magazine - Zephyr Press, 2003 Purchase here from Zephyr Press. 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