Afterlife As Trash by Rushika Wick Andres Ehin Tess Gallagher is the author

Tess Gallagher is the author of eleven books of poetry

Szymborska

‘Bellwether’

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues

homeland and heritage: from the countries we carry with us

Afterlife As Trash by Rushika Wick Andres Ehin Tess Gallagher is the authorRushika Wicks poems are works of great imaginative power, both formally and in terms of their contents. In the exuberant opening poem of this collection, Diaries Of An Artist In Hiding, she is by turns the president, Matisse, a love letter, the weather, a badger; the experiment is boundless like the imagination of a new subspecies of giant squid immeasurable and brilliant, its owner perceived as a delicacy. It is a poem that seems to stand as a sort