Sky and island light
poems
by Brendan Galvin
This stunning collection presents locales ranging from Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetland Islands, and the poet's native Cape Cod.
In line after line Brendan Galvin evokes the physical world with a naturalist's eye, dazzlingly apparent in his brushstrokes depicting a gull sliding "on a crawl of heat among exposed hummocks" or white birches standing "like hairline / faults of frost / driven through stone." In all this seething life, in this world of light and shadows, Galvin suggests a web of sensibility.
Cemeteries, deserted villages, lost faces - such fragments Galvin transmutes into meditations on the blood-deep mysteries of death, desire, and the evolution of consciousness, all conjured with an instinct for the telling nuance of behavior and a delight in the language of everyday conversation.
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Sky and Island Light: Poems
February 1997, Louisiana State University Press
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0807121096 9780807121092
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Sky and island light: poems
1996, Louisiana State University Press
in English
0807121088 9780807121085
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