Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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- LjudbokEngelska, 2005
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Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are themselves possessed by the terrain.
For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed successes that illuminate the Western character. The Meadow evolves a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.
- Häftad, Engelska, 1994
185 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1997
327 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2003
230 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2009
250 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
185 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2016
157 kr
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"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."The Nation"Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential."Library Journal"Galvin [has] the virtues of precise observation and original language . . . a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make [each] poem an architectural pleasure."Harvard ReviewIn his first collection in seven years, James Galvin expands upon his signature spare and gnomic lyric as he engages restrained astonishment, desire, and loss in a confessional voice. Whether considering masterpieces of painting or describing the austere landscape of his native Wyoming ranchlands, Galvin turns to highly imagistic yet intimate narratives to rain down compassion within isolation.From "On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses":On starless, windless nights like thisI imagineI can hear the wedding dressesWeeping in their closets,Luminescent with hopeless longing,Like hollow angels.They know they will never be worn again.Who wants them now,After their one heroic day in the limelight?Yet they glow with desireIn the darkness of closets.James Galvin passionately depicts the rural American West and the interactions between humans and nature in his best-selling memoir The Meadow and his novel Fencing the Sky. Galvin is also the author of several volumes of poetry and teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He divides his time between Iowa and Wyoming.
