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Partway to Geophany : Poems /
""Partway to Geophany," the nineteenth collection by the celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod. This setting allows Galvin, as a naturalist and environmentalist, to undertake poems that meditate on wildlife, l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""Partway to Geophany," the nineteenth collection by the celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod. This setting allows Galvin, as a naturalist and environmentalist, to undertake poems that meditate on wildlife, landscape, and the passage of time. His spirit of inclusivity also surfaces in poems of love, local people, foreign and domestic travel, and even writing itself. Throughout, Galvin probes the implied question, What is humanity's place in the natural world? His masterful use of the narrative lyric produces poems of great mystery and intimacy, in tones varying from grave to playful, as he reflects on the cruelties of time and the pleasures of being alive"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (90 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807174531 |