In a Landscape - Paperback

by John Gallaher (Author)

This book-length essay-poem chronicles the meditations of an adopted son--now a father--struggling with the meaning of family, love, and death.

Author Biography

John Gallaher is the author of The Little Book of Guesses (2007, Four Way Books), winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, Map of the Folded World (2009, University of Akron Press), and co-author, with G.C. Waldrep, of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (2011, BOA Editions). His poetry appears widely in such places as The Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Field, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Westbranch, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Gallaher is currently associate professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review.