Egg Island almanac : poems / by Brendan Galvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galvin, Brendan, author.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 65 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Brendan Galvin's Egg Island Almanac chronicles a year in a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, from one winter to the next, in free verse poems that often highlight his training as a naturalist and environmental writer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ordnance 1

Duets 2

Seeing Stars 4

First Impressions 6

Limbo 7

To a Fruit Fly in Winter 8

A January Heron 9

Post Office Parking Lot, February 10

Cabin Fever 11

Out of the Ordinary 13

March 11, 50 Degrees 15

An Egg Island Equinox 16

A Sea Piece 17

Astonishment 18

The Jackrabbit's Ears 19

Lefty's Game 21

The Fish Crows 22

Totems 23

Superhero 25

A Few Questions for Ben Franklin 26

A Domestic Arrangement 27

The June Light in Locust Groves 28

Rebuilding a Woodpile at the Summer Solstice 29

Capercaillie 31

July Hailstorm 33

Strivers' Moon 35

Revenant 36

Fortune Cookie 37

The Bullfrog of My Seventy-First Summer 38

An Inch of Electric Green 39

Getting a Grip 41

Volunteers 42

Labor Day 43

Questions of Travel 44

A Taut String across the Path 45

Nest 46

Why I Live in the Forest 47

Fragments 48

Poem Descending from a Line of Philip Booth's 49

Home Improvement 50

A Coup on the Dogtown Road 51

Mascots 53

Sure Things 54

A Still Life of Egg Island 55

Getting a Lift 56

Blow-Ins 58

Cooking with Ellen 59

Sentry 61

Wart & Co. 62.

ISBN:

9780809336074

0809336073

OCLC:

960712878