{"product_id":"habitat-new-and-selected-poems-1965-2005-9780807130476","title":"Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eA master craftsman who seamlessly combines vision and contemplation, Brendan Galvin is considered among the most powerful naturalist poets today. 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. In a voice of quiet authority leavened with humor, 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.Habitat offers an opportunity to trace a remarkable poetic career. In their richly various shapes, colors, textures, and strategies, Galvin's poems bear witness to matters both joyful and intractable.Full of noose-around-the-neck wisecracks, \u003cbr\u003eyou'd have been an unwilling toiler, \u003cbr\u003eenvying the horse its stamina, \u003cbr\u003ethe hare its jagged speed over broken \u003cbr\u003efields, and bog cotton its deference to wind\u003cbr\u003eon peatlands against blue mountains, \u003cbr\u003ewhere it crowds white-headed \u003cbr\u003eas ancient peasants herded off the best\u003cbr\u003egrazing, enduring as if they'd do better \u003cbr\u003eas plants hoarding minerals through winter, \u003cbr\u003ehairy prodigals spinning existence from clouds, \u003cbr\u003efrom mistfall two days out of three, the odd\u003cbr\u003eshoal of sun drifting across.\u003cbr\u003e -- from \"A Neolithic Meditation\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan Galvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.26w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807130476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Honor Book","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42860072632457,"sku":"9780807130476","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_42a438a4-8b81-400b-b28c-7d865cc213ab.jpg?v=1722316620","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/habitat-new-and-selected-poems-1965-2005-9780807130476","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}