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As Is by James Galvin is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry. The Nation "Galvin's poems seem straightforward enoughbut they're not....Galvin writes here like a force of nature. Excellent reading for contemporary poetry enthusiasts not looking for the overblown."Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal James Galvins poems have zero percent body fat. His tightly controlled and detailed poems evoke measured optimism in a spare existential world where certain charactersThe Mastermind and the Members of the Boardare recurring shadows. Like fables suggesting new truths, personal narratives and love poems intertwine to confront the various paradoxes of domestic life, art, and politics, and the line All poems are love poems leans hard against Some poems are better off dead. In As Is , both claim their hard-won place. I think black holes are just plastic Garbage bags blowing down the midnight highway That is the Universe. There arent as many dimensions as we thought. A black hole can disappear anything that nears it. We all know that. The farthest away Ive ever been is in my own home, Finally cleaning out my daughters room So another little girl can live here. T

Who reads As Is?

Author

James Galvin

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556592966

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.84 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14