Great Blue: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Galvin, Brendan

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

GREAT BLUE: New and Selected Poems

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Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat: A Poem

<p>Poems describing Ireland, Scotland, Cape Cod, and other places use themes from nature, the sea, and boating to reveal the poet's inner self</p>

Sky and Island Light: Poems

This stunning collection presents locales ranging from Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetland Islands, and the poet’s native Cape Cod. In line after line Brendan Galvin evokes the physical world with a naturalist’s eye, dazzlingly apparent in the brushstrokes by which he depicts a gull sliding “on a crawl of heat among exposed hummocks” or white birches standing “like hairline / faults of frost / driven through stone.”In all this seething life, in this world of light and shadows, Galvin suggests a web of sensibility. Cemeteries, deserted villages, lost faces―such fragments Galvin transmutes into meditations on the blood-deep mysteries of death, desire, and the phylogeny of consciousness, all conjured with an instinct for the telling nuance of behavior and a delight in the language of everyday conversation.Lying behind much of Sky and Island Light is the question of what is worthy of our passion; the answer, we learn in “A Cold Bell Ringing in the East,” comes most easily to the outsider:What joy in having been at all, in feeding the fire and knowing that everything isn’t about us. What joy indeed. Sky and Island Light is a superb collection by a remarkable poet, one who combines uncannily scrupulous habits of observation with astonishing stylistic grace.

Sky and Island Light: Poems (Sun and Moon Classics; 107)

LSU Press

Strength of a Named Thing: Poems

The Strength of a Named Thing: Poems

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