Never Enough by Laura Gamache

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Laura Gamache has crafted something valuable out of the cluttered household her late parents left behind:  these poems that reveal the love, anxiety, black humor, and grief inside our hardest letting go.

–Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume

 

In Never Enough, Laura Gamache explores grief in poems that deal with the tangible objects the departed leave behind. Lucid and devoid of sentimentality, these poems have the courage to let details speak for themselves.  Although the poet acknowledges “no message echoes back/from the planet the dead flutter towards,” the personal effects she uncovers –her father’s war memorabilia, her mother’s writing class memoir with a chapter titled “Unrealized Goals”—reveal new facets of their owners. “Oh who would want these fraying afghans,/unflattering photographs in cheap frames?”  she asks. We want, we need these compassionate, restrained poems.

–Kathleen Aguero, Author of After That

 

 

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Never Enough

by Laura Gamache

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-188-1

2017

Seattle poet and teaching artist Laura Gamache earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington in 1993, and directed the UW MFA Writers in the Schools program from 1993 to 2003. She was named a Jack Straw Writers Program fellow in 1999 and 2002. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, nothing to hold onto, in 2005. Her poems and teaching essays have appeared in many print and on-line journals, including Teachers & Writers Collaborative Press, Menacing Hedge, Sixfold Poetry Journal, and others. She works in classrooms through Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers in the Schools Program, and was Sprague/Williamson Writer in Residence in Chiloquin, Oregon for nine weeks each fall during 2008, 2009 and 2010. She has written with and been inspired by students from five-years-old through elder adults. She walks, writes, reads and teaches in Seattle, where she lives with her husband, Jim.

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