As Is Contributor(s): Galvin, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556592965 ISBN-13: 9781556592966 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2009 Annotation: "James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."--The Nation James Galvin's poems have zero percent body fat. His tightly controlled and detailed poems evoke measured optimism in a spare existential world where certain characters--"The Mastermind" and the "Members of the Board"--are recurring shadows. Like fables suggesting new truths, personal narratives and love poems intertwine to confront the various paradoxes of domestic life, art, and politics, and the line "All poems are love poems" leans hard against "Some poems are better off dead." In As Is, both claim their hard-won place. James Galvin is a Wyoming rancher and on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of six books of poetry, a novel, and the acclaimed memoir The Meadow. He lives in Tie Siding, Wyoming, and Iowa City, Iowa. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2008049369 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.30 lbs) 80 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."--The Nation Galvin's poems seem straightforward enough--but they're not....Galvin writes here like a force of nature. VERDICT: Excellent reading for contemporary poetry enthusiasts not looking for the overblown.--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal James Galvin's poems have zero percent body fat. His tightly controlled and detailed poems evoke measured optimism in a spare existential world where certain characters--"The Mastermind" and the "Members of the Board"--are recurring shadows. Like fables suggesting new truths, personal narratives and love poems intertwine to confront the various paradoxes of domestic life, art, and politics, and the line "All poems are love poems" leans hard against "Some poems are better off dead." In As Is, both claim their hard-won place. I think black holes are just plastic James Galvin is a Wyoming rancher and on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of six books of poetry, a novel, and the acclaimed memoir The Meadow. He lives in Tie Siding, Wyoming, and Iowa City, Iowa. |