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Place keepers : poems / Brendan Galvin.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A44 P57 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galvin, Brendan
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 63 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Brendan Galvin has been hailed as one of the very best of contemporary nature poets. In his thirteenth book, Galvin responds with exuberant directness to the extravagances encountered in landscapes and people, birds and animals, flowers and vegetables, weather and seas, both in his native Cape Cod and in Ireland and the islands of the Outer Hebrides. This poet leads us far from the familiar, and we are likely to follow along because he has earned our trust, in large ways and small. His wise and gentle poems divulge a beguiling moral dimension in their intimate, playful exploration of the wonders of the world. Resounding with the musicality of the American language, Place Keepers is a volume that readers will keep nearby to return to for reassurance and refreshment.
- Contents:
- May Day vii
- 1 Cold Water Elegy 3
- The Blue Island Log of Herman Gill 5
- The Proper Name for Water 7
- The Day Before 8
- Job Description 10
- Holdouts 12
- Bullfrog 14
- Sustenance 15
- Soul of the River 17
- 2 Viaticum 21
- The South Uist Bus 23
- Stillborn 25
- The Gang from Ballyloskey 27
- Epiphany 28
- Glenfillan Sheepdog Trials 30
- Listening to the Courtship Delirium of the Great Horned Owls 32
- 3 The Blue Woods 35
- Intractable Things 37
- Catalog Dreams 39
- The Red Toolbox 40
- The Mules of Decatur Street 42
- A July Woodpile 43
- Three Places in New England 45
- It Was Snowing and It Was Going to Snow 46
- Radiator Music 47
- An Inside Job 48
- 4 The Potatoes Have a Word to Say 51
- Understories 52
- Late August in the Fog 54
- Mushrooms 55
- Four Things Charlie Fox Loved 57
- Apple Muse 59
- Winter Stars 61
- White-Throat 62
- Testament 63.
- ISBN:
- 0807128910
- 0807128929
- OCLC:
- 51984923
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