In Plenty's Woods

<p><i>In Plenty's Woods </i> a final collection of poems by Brendan Galvin returns to many settings and subjects that fascinated him: the natural world particularly the birds around his home off Cape Cod in Truro Massachusetts; the attractions and dangers of the seashore; his Irish heritage including its rich language and folk culture; and the pleasures of domestic life. He explores the natural order in dialogue--sometimes playful sometimes grave--with a personal realm of love mortality and the history embedded in the language we exchange. <p/>Whether describing the birdlife he sees even during wintertime speculating on the voices heard by sleeping sailors at sea or writing a love poem he cannot read to his departed wife Galvin remains a poet of consummate skill and powerful emotion who works the narrative lyric with great precision of attention flexibility of tone and expressivity of figure.</p>