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Habitat : new and selected poems, 1965-2005

Title
Habitat : new and selected poems, 1965-2005 / Brendan Galvin.
Author
Galvin, Brendan.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description
x, 250 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents
Fogdog -- Catboat -- A few local names of the double-crested cormorant -- For the raven's return -- Hummer -- Riffing deciduous -- Dogs of Truro -- A buck's prints in winter -- Blues for a kettle pond -- A gift apple from Derry, New Hampshire -- Blackthorn and ash -- The history of my hat -- A Neolithic meditation -- Mouth music -- A woman at Lake Pontchartrain Park -- Byrum between the headphones -- Ploesti -- A footnote to power -- May Day -- Cold water elegy -- The blue island log of Herman Gill -- Holdouts -- The gang from Ballyloskey -- The South Uist bus -- Listening to the courtship delirium of the great horned owls -- The blue woods -- The potatoes have a word to say -- Mushrooms -- Four things Charlie Fox loved -- Apple muse -- Winter stars -- Testament -- Pondycherry -- Brother Francisco Anthony eats an apple -- Listening to the garden -- The soul is not colorless -- Toad -- Pelican -- Captain Teabag and the Wellfleet witches -- A warning to the comet Hyakutake about the Olafsen brothers -- My frost dream -- Wheelbarrow -- At Ellen Doyle's brook -- Web sights -- The vegetable -- Charlie Fox -- Walter Anderson sleeping on the levee -- Skylights -- Nimblejacks -- One for the life list -- Rained out -- A cold bell ringing in the east -- Pococurante -- For a daughter gone away -- The Portuguese uncle -- Anchorites -- Under my Stornoway hat -- Saints in their ox-hide boat -- Chickadee -- Seals in the inner harbor -- Pollen -- In egg time -- Mayflies -- Summer school -- Warmth -- Fog township -- Fall squashes -- Great blue -- My grandmother steals her last trout -- Donegal -- Hearing Irish spoken -- A holy well -- The apple trees -- Kale soup -- The Connecticut River in flood -- Wampanoag traveler -- The mockingbird -- Transmigration -- A double-ended dory -- Winter oysters -- Dog love -- Young owls -- 1847 -- Old map of Barnstable County -- Pitch pines -- Old old woman, little girl -- The trip by dream train -- A triptych for snowlight -- Glass -- A photo of miners -- The old clothes -- Fear of Gray's anatomy -- Needsong -- The winter runner -- Long pond summer -- After midnight -- Stealing the Christmas greens -- The bats.
ISBN
  • 080713046X (alk. paper)
  • 0807130478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004022441
OCLC
  • ocm56614275
  • SCSB-5181903
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries