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X: Poems
2002 Lannan Award winner explores through poetry the "vertigo of solitude" as his family dissolves.
Book Details
- Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2003
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.94in - 6.08in - 0.24in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781556591914
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
James Galvin is both a rancher in Wyoming and on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of six books of poems, an acclaimed memoir The Meadow, and a novel.
Praise for this book
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.
"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."
"In James Galvin we have a superior poet."
"Galvin's poems have the virtues of precise observation and original language, yes, but what he also brings to the table is a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make the slightest of his poems an architectural pleasure."