
Seeing Double
Gary J. Whitehead(Author)
Terrapin Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-1-947896-87-1 (ISBN)
Description
The doubling effect in Gary Whitehead's collection Seeing Double is half elegy, half ode. How else to recognize the complexity of what it means to give up the drink and start a new life! In Whitehead's recognizable direct simplicity and commanding lines, we are privileged to follow this arc from loss to revitalization. I enjoyed the heck out of these poems for the unapologetic sincerity, the willingness to tell it straight, and the tenderness by which Whitehead approaches his past and future. What a joy to witness that, in whatever stage of life, we are deserving of the necessary grace. Seeing Double is an honest take on a life hard-earned and the blessing of a second take.
-James Hoch
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-947896-87-1 (9781947896871)
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Gary J. Whitehead has previously authored four books of poetry. His collection Strange What Rises was published by Terrapin Books in 2019. A Glossary of Chickens was selected for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. Earlier books include Measuring Cubits While the Thunder Claps (David Robert Books) and The Velocity of Dust (Salmon). He has also authored three chapbooks of poetry, two of which were winners of national competitions. His writing awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review, and the PEN Northwest Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award. His poems have appeared widely, most notably in The New Yorker and Poetry, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, the Guardian's Poem of the Week, and the BBC's Words and Music program. He lives in northern New Jersey.