{"product_id":"portable-kisses-paperback","title":"Portable Kisses - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTess Gallagher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ideally, a reader should finish this book, then find someone to kiss' - Tess Gallagher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is the best book of love poems since Neruda's' - Bill Knott.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss, ' says American poet Tess Gallagher. And so with these playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses, a whole book devoted to the kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortable Kisses\u003c\/em\u003e is a book which kept growing. The earliest poems were published in a hand-printed limited edition called\u003cem\u003e Portable Kisses \u003c\/em\u003ein 1978. But the poems wouldn't stop, like the best of kisses, and Tess Gallagher published a new \u003cem\u003ePortable Kisses\u003c\/em\u003e in 1992, followed two years later by \u003cem\u003ePortable Kisses Expanded.\u003c\/em\u003e This first UK edition of the most travelled kisses in poetry since Neruda's \u003cem\u003eTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair \u003c\/em\u003eincludes all the kisses Tess Gallagher has put down on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In \u003cem\u003ePortable Kisses\u003c\/em\u003e, she convincingly provides condensed librettos of lovers' patterns of approach and retreat... It's a book filled with beauty, energy and surprise' - Ann Beattie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTess Gallagher was born in Port Angeles, Washington, the daughter of a logger and longshoreman. A poet, essayist, fiction writer and playwright, she has published many books, including five poetry titles in Britain with Bloodaxe: My Black Horse: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (1995), Portable Kisses (1996), Dear Ghosts, (2007), Midnight Lantern: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (2012) and Is, Is Not (2019). She has published three collections of stories, The Lover of Horses (1986), At the Owl Woman Saloon (1997) and The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories (2009), plus two books of essays, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (1986) and Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (2000). She co-authored two screenplays with Raymond Carver, and later contributed to the making of the Robert Altman film Short Cuts, based on Carver's work. She has also written introductions to books such as A New Path to the Waterfall and All of Us by Raymond Carver and Carver Country. She collaborated with the Irish storyteller Josie Gray to set his stories into print in Barnacle Soup (Blackstaff, 2007). In 2013 she hosted a Raymond Carver Festival on the Olympic Peninsula where she lived with her late husband until his death in 1988. She spends part of each year in the West of Ireland, near Sligo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.49 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50343531053293,"sku":"9781852243654","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/fVQLLa3AQF9781852243654.webp?v=1785173767","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/portable-kisses-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}