Partway to geophany : poems / Brendan Galvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galvin, Brendan, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

""Partway to Geophany," the nineteenth collection by the celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod. This setting allows Galvin, as a naturalist and environmentalist, to undertake poems that meditate on wildlife, landscape, and the passage of time. His spirit of inclusivity also surfaces in poems of love, local people, foreign and domestic travel, and even 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Trance

February Light

A Half-Moon in March

Summer Dawn, Summer Nightgown

You, and the Ursus Remembered

Paired in Time

Where's My Gadabout Girl Tonight?

Hrafn

There Are Times I Need to Forget You

II. Ryders Cove

One Willet

Winter Warbler

Best March Breakfast

One Answer

Harrier Weather

Stragglers

Survivalists

Snowy Owl

A Promise

Watched Over

Reading My Poems of Fifty Years Ago

Unpaved Ways to Geophany

III. Arriviste Houses

It Was Snowing and it Was Going to Snow

A Late March Snow

Hunters

Neighbor Fox

IV. Two British Tourists, Half Moon Bay

An Underworld Homily

Advice to Blow-ins

An Arable Bog

An Unsigned Postcard from Wellfleet

V. Voices from the River

Marina Stanislowska's Pencil

Having the Wrong Name

Phantom Pain

A Gift from Montana

Finnbarr & Co.

Hamlet's Dog

Down Escalator

Self-elegy: Dungallon Westerly Tending

Selling It

After the Stroke

Ghost Flights Floating Down.

Other Format:

Online version: Galvin, Brendan, Partway to geophany

ISBN:

9780807172216

0807172219

OCLC:

1145093358