Partway to Geophany

Poems

by Brendan Galvin

90 Pages / 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.20 in

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9780807172216

Published: November 2020

$19.95

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9780807174548

Published: November 2020

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Partway to Geophany, the latest collection by celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod, alongside observations of other beloved places. As a naturalist and environmentalist, Galvin undertakes poems that meditate on wildlife, landscape, and the passage of time. His verse presents powerful and immediate detailings of quotidian experience, with poems about love and loss, local people and customs, foreign and domestic travel, and writing itself. Throughout, Galvin probes the implied question, What is humanity’s place in the natural world? His masterful use of the narrative lyric produces poems of great mystery and intimacy, in tones varying from grave to playful, as he reflects on the cruelties of time and the pleasures of being alive.

Brendan Galvin is the author of eighteen poetry collections, including Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005, a finalist for the National Book Award. His many other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation, the Iowa Poetry Prize, Poetry’s Levinson Prize, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.

[Previous praise] Few living poets are as memorable in their descriptions of the goings-on in the non-man-manufactured world. ~New York Times Book Review

[Previous praise] Galvin has an exciting gift for finding the unexpected word that proves miraculously perfect in its setting. ~Atlantic Monthly

[Previous praise] Galvin makes poems whose seemingly effortless conversation haunts us with human truths and lyric staying power. ~Virginia Quarterly Review

[Previous praise] Galvin’s poems can be elegantly scruffy as a crow’s chatter, but they seek beauty as if finding it were a matter of life and death, as he proves over and over it is. ~Shenandoah

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