"Dear Ghosts," poetry written for the dead

Poet Tess Gallagher's life is filled with ghosts. She's not afraid of them. She believes in embracing them, and learning from them. She pays tribute them in "Dear Ghosts," her newest collection of poems from St. Paul-based Greywolf Press.

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