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Title

Ocean effects : poems / Brendan Galvin.

Author

Galvin, Brendan.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

viii, 79 pages; 23 cm

Contents

Forty pines -- Splash -- As in a succession of Russian dolls -- The Labrador summer -- Ocean effect -- Mystery squid -- A 10th century pew end in the Faroes -- Roy Olafsen, Cape Cod Craftsperson, tells all -- A reliquary -- 1. Red horses -- 2. Przhevalsky -- 3. Zone of alienation -- 1. How chief McHugh got his birdwatching gear -- 2. Sgt. Crocker Newton on the usual suspects -- 3. Sgt. Newton recollects the return of Thane Gould to Endicott, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1977 -- 4. Sgt. Newton and the crows -- 5. Sgt. Newton's Indie film debut -- 6. Moxie Hogan's Alibi -- 1. The snow trial -- 2. Letter from George Ludlow, Merchant, to Roger Williams -- 3. Samuel Gorton : letter of Roger Williams to William Blackstone -- 4. Letter from Roger Williams to John Winthrop, Jr. -- 5. Roger Williams's Shipwreck letter to the citizens of providence colony -- 6. Doffing & Donning : an exchange of letters -- 7. A proposal of banishment -- 8. Of rivers, theologies, and persons infamous -- 9. A second coming at providence plantation -- 10. Canoeing with Master Williams -- A mile down the road from home -- The mice -- Oyster money -- Corps of discovery -- Hard evidence -- Letter from cold harbor -- How winter left town -- An intermission -- Stations.

ISBN

• 9780807132661 (alk. paper)
• 0807132667 (alk. paper)
• 9780807132678 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807132675 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037199

OCLC

• OCM76074259
• 76074259
• SCSB-5364342

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries