X - (Lannan Literary Selections) by James Galvin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>2002 Lannan Award winner explores through poetry the vertigo of solitude as his family dissolves.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p><i>Something has to be true enough to be<br>Taken for granted.<br>In the hospital I saw<br>An old man<br>Caressing the face of an old woman.<br>This same man, young, caressed her face<br>In just that way.<br>That's the stillness<br>At the center of change--<br>A sadness worth dying for, I swear--<br>There is no other.<br></i>--from Dying into What I've Done</p><p>James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.--<i>The Nation</i></p><p>In James Galvin we have a superior poet.--<i>American Book Review</i></p><p>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.--<i>Harvard Review</i></p><p><b>James Galvin</b> has published five collections of poetry, most recently <i>Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997</i>, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall/<i>The Nation </i>Prize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, <i>The Meadow </i>and a novel, <i>Fencing the Sky</i>. 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."<br><br>"In James Galvin we have a superior poet."<br><br>"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."<br><br>Something has to be true enough to be Taken for granted. In the hospital I saw An old man Caressing the face of an old woman. This same man, young, caressed her face In just that way. That's the stillness At the center of change-- A sadness worth dying for, I swear-- There is no other.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James 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.
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