Description
Poetry. "To enter these poems is to step into a baroque architecture whose ceiling has come down, dismantled in fragments and glittering dust. Look up, says the poet, to see the night these poems expose: 'In every black there is / violet. I am speaking to you, // violet. When you come to the / precipice of your life and sit / in the dark.' Here is the vertiginous danger and lure of the edge that marks the work of Gallagher. Her lines create a vibratory music between the austere and the rich excess of a night that can dampen our 'late morning' in this city aflame. Notice, she says, 'how the mouths of us grow large' to take in such a nectar."—Carolina Ebeid
Author Bio
Shamala Gallagher is an Indian/Irish American poet and essayist whose first book is LATE MORNING WHEN THE WORLD BURNS. She is also the author of a chapbook, I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), and her writing has appeared in Poetry, The Rumpus, The Offing, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Athens, GA with her family.
Author City: ATHENS, GA USA