A01=Brendan Galvin
Author_Brendan Galvin
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807132678
- Weight: 132g
- Dimensions: 161 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sharply observed and metaphorically inventive, Ocean Effects is a worthy follow-up to Galvin's National Book Award finalist Habitat. It includes a new vein of Galvin's trademark richly observed lyric poems on the biota, landscapes, and weathers of coastal New England. Seascapes and the natural world bracket sequences spoken by personae as various as the seventeenth-century American colonist Roger Williams, small-town cops, a squatter in the ruins of Chernobyl, a nineteenth- century Russian general in Mongolia, and a Cape Cod carpenter. Galvin's monologues, tensile and energetic free verse, are touched with the speech of the historical periods in which they take place.
Brendan Galvin is the author of Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965- 2005, Sky and Island Light, Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat, and other books. Among his many honors are the Aiken Taylor Award, given by the Sewanee Review, a Guggenheim fellowship, and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize.
