{"product_id":"x-poems-paperback","title":"X: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomething has to be true enough to be\u003cbr\u003eTaken for granted.\u003cbr\u003eIn the hospital I saw\u003cbr\u003eAn old man\u003cbr\u003eCaressing the face of an old woman.\u003cbr\u003eThis same man, young, caressed her face\u003cbr\u003eIn just that way.\u003cbr\u003eThat's the stillness\u003cbr\u003eAt the center of change--\u003cbr\u003eA sadness worth dying for, I swear--\u003cbr\u003eThere is no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--from \"Dying into What I've Done\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In James Galvin we have a superior poet.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e has published five collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall\/\u003ci\u003eThe Nation \u003c\/i\u003ePrize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, \u003ci\u003eThe Meadow \u003c\/i\u003eand a novel, \u003ci\u003eFencing the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher part of each year, and in Iowa City, where he is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.94 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50375765885165,"sku":"9781556591914","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/O4WZMrSRw_9781556591914.webp?v=1785570189","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/x-poems-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}