In The Strength of a Named Thing, readers who have delighted in Brendan Galvin's exuberant style and humor will discover further pleasures in his encounters with the natural world of his native Cape Cod -- the birds, toads, and mysterious vegetables, and the equally quirky humans.Many of these poems involve names and naming things. The speaker in "Pondycherry" is intrigued by that word and how it entered his consciousness. Phloem, calyx, and carina transcend their vegetable origin to become imaginary musical instruments in ...
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In The Strength of a Named Thing, readers who have delighted in Brendan Galvin's exuberant style and humor will discover further pleasures in his encounters with the natural world of his native Cape Cod -- the birds, toads, and mysterious vegetables, and the equally quirky humans.Many of these poems involve names and naming things. The speaker in "Pondycherry" is intrigued by that word and how it entered his consciousness. Phloem, calyx, and carina transcend their vegetable origin to become imaginary musical instruments in "Listening to the Garden." The painter Walter Anderson, waking on a levee to discover himself surrounded by birds he cannot name, invents sobriquets for them: stonechuck, fireneck, peabill, garget.
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Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Acceptable dust jacket. Dampstained. Book from the collection of poet Paul Grant. (poems, poetry)
