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Title: Resurrection Update: Collected Poems, 1975-1997 by James Galvin ISBN: 1-55659-121-7 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Contemporary American poetry at its best
Comment: This book has the most memorable lines per page of any English poetry I have read. Galvin has done a superb job of taking the concrete details of life on a Western ranch and made of them a universal exploration of history, human surviving, practical theology. Poem after poem allows reading and rereading without exhausting the poem's potential.

Opening at random - "The sound of me getting norwhere. / Though I'm telling you there are mountains so distant / It hurts to look" - what a wonderful image "so distant it hurts" - over and over these concrete, straight-talking Western poems catch you up in a new way of looking at the world - new questions, new potential answers.

Rating: 5
Summary: Go West
Comment: These poems describe an internal landscape as lonesome and unknowable, and yet as inescapably beautiful, as the Wyoming in which they are (mostly) set. Camp a few days alone in the wilderness of the Rockies -- where the rest of the world can seem simply not matter, but where a brutal nature will not let the world be ignored --and you'll know what I mean. Read "Three Sonnets" or "Everyone Knows Whom the Saved Envy" and you are in that wilderness.

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