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Sky and Island Light - Poems (Paperback, New)
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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.
General
Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 1997 |
First published: |
February 1997 |
Authors: |
Brendan Galvin
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
64 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-2109-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8071-2109-6 |
Barcode: |
9780807121092 |
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