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ISBN: 9781556591914

ISBN-10: 1556591918

ISBN-13: 9781556591914

Edition: 2003

Authors: James Galvin

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"X" is the kiss and betrayal, the embrace, the crucifixion, the mathematical unknown. In his sixth book of poems, James Galvin writes from a deep, philosophical engagement with the landscape and faces a "vertigo of solitude" with his marriage dissolved, his only daughter grown and gone, and the log house he built by hand abandoned. "What did I love that made me believe it would last?" he asks. Something has to be true enough to be Taken for granted. In the hospital I saw An old man Caressing the face of an old woman. This same man, young, caressed her face In just that way. That's the stillness At the center of change- A sadness worth dying for, I swear- There is no other. -from "Dying…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English






Little Dantesque


Dear May Eighth


Dear Nobody's Business


Wild Irises on Dirty Woman Creek


Alpenrose Growing by the Door


Rolling Sun


Show-and-Tell


Prevailing Wind


Fire Season


Ponderosa


Earthquake


So Long


Dying into What I've Done


Limber Pines


Promises Are for Liars


Bad Samaritans


Ought


Jet Stream


Double Rainbow





Upslope


Conflagration of Opposites


Freezing Rain


Heat Waves in Winter Distance


River Edged with Ice


Winter Solstice Full Moon at Perigee


January Thaw


Leap Year


Show Me Your Original Face, the Face You Had Before Your Parents Were Born


Cherry Blossoms Blowing in Wet, Blowing Snow


Nature, beside Herself


Sunset through Spring Snow


Depending on the Wind


Putting Down the Night


Splinters of the True Cross


Nature Averts Her Eyes





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