In a Landscape

Falling somewhere between a diary-poem, a daybook,
autobiography-in-verse, and an essay-poem, In a Landscape is noted poet and critic John Gallaher’s most personal, straightforward, and revealing book yet. In lyric-prose that continuously circles the questions it raises, Gallaher sloughs off the garb of poet to address life questions in a way that few poets of his generation have been willing to risk. Family, death, adoption, children, parents, high school, music … Gallaher’s subjects carry weight because of their absolute commonness.

John Gallaher is assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of the Laurel Review.