A review by poetry_shaman
Moon Crossing Bridge by Tess Gallagher

4.0

Moon Crossing Bridge is a collection about lost love, grief, and moving forward. The book is filled with poems about the author's late husband and the poems written feel like the poet's way of processing her loss. The poems in this collection is full of beautiful lyrics and confessional forms. Gallagher is so good and weaving metaphors together in single poems and then using them again throughout the book. The most prominent example of this is the moon (a symbol or romance) that keeps appearing as the speaker travels. Though there are some jaw dropping poems in this collection (especially the fourth section and in Japan) there often seem to be too many poems about lost love... and maybe it would be better to experience this collection in pieces instead of all at once.

Things I liked~
*I think the lyric of the poems are so strong and they are what kept me moving through the book even though the subject matter felt repetitive.
*The Japan poems are so beautiful and I flew through the section.
*I love the continuous image of the moon and moonlight following the speaker.
*The final poems are a good way to end the collection with moving forward and acceptance.

Things I didn't like as much~
*I felt the book was a bit slow without a lot of diversity.

Overall - 4.5/5