{"product_id":"everything-we-always-knew-was-true","title":"Everything We Always Knew Was True","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Galvin [has] the virtues of precise observation and original language . . . a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make [each] poem an architectural pleasure.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his first collection in seven years, James Galvin expands upon his signature spare and gnomic lyric as he engages restrained astonishment, desire, and loss in a confessional voice. Whether considering masterpieces of painting or describing the austere landscape of his native Wyoming ranchlands, Galvin turns to highly imagistic yet intimate narratives to rain down compassion within isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn starless, windless nights like this\u003cbr\u003eI imagine\u003cbr\u003eI can hear the wedding dresses\u003cbr\u003eWeeping in their closets,\u003cbr\u003eLuminescent with hopeless longing,\u003cbr\u003eLike hollow angels.\u003cbr\u003eThey know they will never be worn again.\u003cbr\u003eWho wants them now,\u003cbr\u003eAfter their one heroic day in the limelight?\u003cbr\u003eYet they glow with desire\u003cbr\u003eIn the darkness of closets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Galvin \u003c\/b\u003epassionately depicts the rural American West and the interactions between humans and nature in his best-selling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Meadow \u003c\/i\u003eand his novel \u003ci\u003eFencing the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. Galvin is also the author of several volumes of poetry and teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He divides his time between Iowa and Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46162169200817,"sku":"9781556594922","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46162169233585,"sku":"f901148a-4e75-3af0-b117-956951c0faae","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_07c030f2-c00e-453b-8e6e-1cc8db3c922c.jpg?v=1763406869","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/everything-we-always-knew-was-true","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}