{"product_id":"x-9781556591914","title":"X","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomething has to be true enough to be\u003cbr\u003eTaken for granted.\u003cbr\u003eIn the hospital I saw\u003cbr\u003eAn old man\u003cbr\u003eCaressing the face of an old woman.\u003cbr\u003eThis same man, young, caressed her face\u003cbr\u003eIn just that way.\u003cbr\u003eThat’s the stillness\u003cbr\u003eAt the center of change—\u003cbr\u003eA sadness worth dying for, I swear—\u003cbr\u003eThere is no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—from \"Dying into What I’ve Done\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In James Galvin we have a superior poet.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Galvin\u003c\/b\u003e has published five collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975–1997\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall\/\u003ci\u003eThe Nation \u003c\/i\u003ePrize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, \u003ci\u003eThe Meadow \u003c\/i\u003eand a novel, \u003ci\u003eFencing the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359609520471,"sku":"9781556591914","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556591914.jpg?v=1754125169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/x-9781556591914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}