Yearning
Yearnings End
“Guy Gallo brings a searing candor to the turmoil of the heart’s intensities and the mind’s deepest questioning: ‘The Milky Way shone like a flickering/Rag white spattering the night sky, smudge/ Of infinite.’ YEARNING’S END is a work of compelling sadness and beauty.”
-- Ann Lauterbach, author of Under the Sign
“Guy Gallo's poems are intensely personal, honest, painful and moving. There is bleak candor here, a wry humor, and an anguished, passionate heart. This is extraordinary work, love poetry dramatically complicated by a mind in ‘constant contest with self.’”
– Patrick McGrath, author of Asylum and Trauma
“I have admired Guy's poetry for nearly two decades. I often have enjoyed the rare privilege of reading his works when they were newly-written, and then witnessed them finding their way into my memory, my consciousness, my way of looking at the world. … [Guy] always reminded me of the words of Thomas Traherne: 'I felt a vigour in my strength/That was all spirit'. That vigour and spirit pervades the extraordinary verse which he leaves behind [in YEARNING’S END.]”
-- Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violinist
Beneath such unanswering puzzles
No wonder we have required
A personal God, some linen–draped
Goddess, bleeding youth, wizened
Wise–man, leering dæmon,
Many–armed warrior,
Some image of infinity
Possessed of passions like our own.
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