For nearly five decades, award-winning poet Brendan Galvin has
written about the birds of the tidal flats, woods, and marshes
around his Cape Cod home and on islands in the North Atlantic. He
knows their field marks, habits, and songs, and his work
demonstrates an obvious fascination with them. Whirl Is King
gathers forty-three of his bird poems about herons, owls,
shorebirds, warblers, raptors, wrens, and other exotic visitors
blown in by wind and storm.
Seen from various angles and stratagems, Galvin's migrants and
locals are always in motion, acting and acted upon, sometimes
predatory, sometimes possessing mythic qualities. In tones ranging
from the elegiac to the hilarious, these poems inhabit the
overlapping borders of human and avian life: "not to salute such /
charity of song / though it be plain as / thumbsqueaks on clear
windowpanes, / not to say their names, / and the shadow of death
passes / across our tongues." Whirl Is King features Galvin's
hallmark descriptive powers and verbal music on full display and
demonstrates his talent as a contemporary poet.
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