{"product_id":"x-lannan-literary-selections","title":"X (Lannan Literary Selections)","description":"\"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.\nSomething has to be true enough to be\nTaken for granted.\nIn the hospital I saw\nAn old man\nCaressing the face of an old woman.\nThis same man, young, caressed her face\nIn just that way.\nThat's the stillness\nAt the center of change—\nA sadness worth dying for, I swear—\nThere is no other.\n—from \"Dying into What I've Done\"\n\"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.\"—The Nation\n\"In James Galvin we have a superior poet.\"—American Book Review\n\"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.\"—Harvard Review\nJames Galvin has published five collections of poetry, most recently Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975–1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall\/The Nation Prize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1556591918\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1556591918.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Galvin, James\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52585408758047,"sku":"PKV.1556591918.G","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1556591918-0.jpg?v=1780160600","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/x-lannan-literary-selections","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}