Author

Publication

1995 - Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Wash, Washington (State)

Language

English

Word Count

15,500 words, Guess

Page Count

62 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1072325
  • Goodreads1234764

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3557.A444 L48 1995

Description

This fourth collection from the author of the prose masterpiece The Meadow is inspired by the often harsh subrural landscape of southwestern Wyoming where Galvin has spent most of the past decade building a log home, beginning with the felling of trees. Firsthand knowledge of the expansive landscape of the west provides perspective more than mere imagery, reducing human activity to its proper dimension. Galvin adds a kind of pre-Socratic intelligence, a stoical turn of mind, and genuine love of hard physical work to make poems that are direct, spare, compact, and stripped of rhetorical or aesthetic device.

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