Instructor Comments - Moon Crossing Bridge

"I'm team teaching a year-long interdisciplinary program called "Dangerous Bliss: The Romantic, the Gothic, and the American Dream." Spring quarter's class is subtitled, "The Search for Transcendence" and we're looking at some of the main forms in which the search takes place. Tess Gallagher's Moon Crossing Bridge celebrates the power of love, loss, mourning, and trancendence. Her poetry is powerful, complex, and accessible. It resonates for students, even those for whom poetry is a new and strange country." —Susan Preciso, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

"Moon Crossing Bridge was a wonderful addition to our reading list this quarter. It's both complex and accessible. Gallagher's work challenged our students' preconceptions about modern poetry, and empowered them to read more." —Marla Beth Elliott, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA