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- ISBN: 9781556591914 (1556591918)
- Author: James Galvin
- Language: english
- Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- Format: paperback, 96 pages
- Genres: poetry
- Release date: May 1, 2003
About The Book
“X” is the kiss and betrayal, the embrace, the crucifixion, the mathematical unknown. In his sixth book of poems, James Galvin writes from a deep, philosophical engagement with the landscape and faces a “vertigo of solitude” with his marriage dissolved, his only daughter grown and gone, and the log house he built by hand abandoned. “What did I love that made me believe it would last?” he asks.
Something has to be true enough to be
Taken for granted.
In the hospital I saw
An old man
Caressing the face of an old woman.
This same man, young, caressed her face
In just that way.
That’s the stillness
At the center of change—
A sadness worth dying for, I swear—
There is no other.
—from “Dying into What I’ve Done”
“James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.” — The Nation
“In James Galvin we have a superior poet.” — American Book Review
“Galvin’s poems have the virtues of precise observation and original language, yes, but what he also brings to the table is a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make the slightest of his poems an architectural pleasure.” — Harvard Review
James Galvin has published five collections of poetry, most recently Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975 — 1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall/The Nation Prize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher part of each year, and in Iowa City, where he is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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