Diving at the Moon
Published on 1. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-1-969900-12-9 (ISBN)
Description
Kevin Gallagher's Diving at the Moon is a walk through China's history, landscape, and culture as seen through the eyes of an expat. Using the traditional Chinese poetic form of the lu-shi, the poems tell a story of the evolution of a personal relationship to a place and a culture as they move between Beijing and Boston, China and the States, English and Chinese. Gallagher's finely-crafted poems, and their facing translations by Wang Ping, connect the disparate in alternating tones of wistfulness and playfulness with a disarming wonder, open-heartedness, and even, love.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-969900-12-9 (9781969900129)
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Persons
Kevin P. Gallagher is a poet, publisher, and political economist living in Greater Boston, USA. He has published nine books of poems. His recent works are And Yet it Moves (Mad Hat, 2023), The Wild Goose (Loom Press, 2022), Radio Plays (Dos Madres, 2019), and LOOM (MadHat, 2016). Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University.