{"product_id":"habitat-new-and-selected-poems-1965-2005-paperback","title":"Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 - 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\u003eBrendan Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master craftsman who seamlessly combines vision and contemplation, Brendan Galvin is considered among the most powerful naturalist poets today. Habitat, Galvin's fourteenth poetry book, combines eighteen new works with lyric pieces from the past forty years -- including two book-length narratives, Wampanoag Traveler and Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat. In a voice of quiet authority leavened with humor, Galvin intimately conveys his landscapes, birds and animals, people, and weather. By elevating the commonplace to the crucial, he takes his readers very far from the familiar.Habitat offers an opportunity to trace a remarkable poetic career. In their richly various shapes, colors, textures, and strategies, Galvin's poems bear witness to matters both joyful and intractable.Full of noose-around-the-neck wisecracks, \u003cbr\u003eyou'd have been an unwilling toiler, \u003cbr\u003eenvying the horse its stamina, \u003cbr\u003ethe hare its jagged speed over broken \u003cbr\u003efields, and bog cotton its deference to wind\u003cbr\u003eon peatlands against blue mountains, \u003cbr\u003ewhere it crowds white-headed \u003cbr\u003eas ancient peasants herded off the best\u003cbr\u003egrazing, enduring as if they'd do better \u003cbr\u003eas plants hoarding minerals through winter, \u003cbr\u003ehairy prodigals spinning existence from clouds, \u003cbr\u003efrom mistfall two days out of three, the odd\u003cbr\u003eshoal of sun drifting across.\u003cbr\u003e -- from \"A Neolithic Meditation\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrendan Galvin is the author of fourteen poetry books, most recently Placekeepers and The Strength of a Named Thing. His poems have appeared more than six hundred times in anthologies and magazines, including the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Harper's Magazine, Nation, Paris Review, and Poetry. He has received, among other awards and honors, the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation, the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.94 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726433448243,"sku":"9780807130476","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TGxkeFZjWEJzNURSbzRsWng0eEhQQT09.webp?v=1763737196","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/habitat-new-and-selected-poems-1965-2005-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}