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Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat

Literature & Fiction

Galvin, Brendan

Poetry

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

Place Keepers: Poems

A master craftsman who seamlessly combines vision and contemplation, Brendan Galvin is considered among the most powerful naturalist poets today. Habitat, Galvin's fourteenth poetry book, combines eighteen new works with lyric pieces from the past forty years -- including two book-length narratives, Wampanoag Traveler and Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat. In a voice of quiet authority leavened with humor, Galvin intimately conveys his landscapes, birds and animals, people, and weather. By elevating the commonplace to the crucial, he takes his readers very far from the familiar.Habitat offers an opportunity to trace a remarkable poetic career. In their richly various shapes, colors, textures, and strategies, Galvin's poems bear witness to matters both joyful and intractable.Full of noose-around-the-neck wisecracks,you'd have been an unwilling toiler, envying the horse its stamina, the hare its jagged speed over broken fields, and bog cotton its deference to windon peatlands against blue mountains, where it crowds white-headed as ancient peasants herded off the bestgrazing, enduring as if they'd do better as plants hoarding minerals through winter,hairy prodigals spinning existence from clouds,from mistfall two days out of three, the oddshoal of sun drifting across. -- from "A Neolithic Meditation"

Habitat: New And Selected Poems, 1965-2005

Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005

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