Galvanized by Leland Kinsey

Galvanized by Leland Kinsey

Leland Kinsey's much-anticipated new and selected poetry collection, Galvanized, ranges from Kinsey's home in the rugged mountains of northern Vermont to the towering stone lighthouses and highland shielings of his ancestors' Scotland. Drawing from seven previous, acclaimed collections, and with more than twelve new poems, Kinsey takes us with him on his travels to the brawling rivers of Labrador, the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the wheat fields and dinosaur digs of Alberta, and the ranchos of the Tex-Mex border.

With precise and original images - the Egyptian mummies used to stoke the furnaces of 19th-century steamships; the hardwood timbers of Swahili sailing freighters dating back three thousand years - Kinsey carries us deep into human history and into the natural world we were once all intimately a part of. With him, we visit the rough, country ballfields and raw girlie shows of his youth, and experience the endlessly fascinating intricacies of the work he's done, as a farrier, printer, horseman, dairy farmer, teacher. In language so exact and powerful it appears to be galvanized itself, Kinsey is a poet of the reaches of the world, and our place in it. He writes of love and loss, of family and friendship, of joy and sorrow, always with a hard-earned vision of hope, always straight from his own dauntless heart.

"Galvanized: New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey is a beautifully drafted, richly detailed, four-dimensional map through space and time. . The work that emerges from the poet's precise map of the neighborhood that this reader finds most compelling. Kinsey is a master of brilliant closing lines . . . But then comes my favorite conclusion of all the poems in Galvanized. He's writing abut his garden but the lines serve as a metaphor for Mr. Kinsey's real legacy: Here is life's habit on grand exhibit / and the hard work hidden." -- Chris Braithwaite -- The Chronicle
"Such deep and reverent knowledge of place--the flora, the fauna, the history--and all of those particulars wedded to the poet's own experience through a language that is both musical and precise. I think I will be reading this many times, and can't wait to see it in book form." -Robin MacArthur, author of Half Wild
"All of Leland Kinsey's poetry is closely connected to the natural world, with its expert (and highly entertaining) use of history, stories, characters - many from Leland Kinsey's own family and ancestors - and images from nature, rural work and avocations, and the traditions of a very harsh but authentic, off-the-beaten track Vermont." -Howard Frank Mosher, author of Stranger in the Kingdom

Leland Kinsey, was born and raised on a farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where his ancestors settled in the early 1800s. He conducted writing workshops for the Vermont Arts Council and the Children’s Literacy Foundation at over 100 schools in New Hampshire and Vermont. Leland worked as a farmhand, printer, and horse trainer, and wrote seven collections of poetry, including In the Rain Shadow, The Immigrant’s Contract, Winter Ready, and Galvanized: New & Selected Poems.Leland passed away September 14, 2016

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780996267656
ISBN 10	0996267654
Titel	Galvanized
Autor	Leland Kinsey
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Green Writers Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-04-08
Seitenanzahl	340
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Hinweis	Nicht verfügbar