Great Blue (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brendan Galvin
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, United States or Americans, Individuality, Small-town life, Anthropology or anthropologists, Baseball, Birds, Naturalism, Signs or symbols, Sky
Brendan Galvin has just published his ninth collection of poetry and has many fans among poets, but almost none among anthologists. Galvin’s reputation, or lack of it, is a mystery. His poetry regularly appears in the best and best-known periodicals, his collections have been published by prestigious university presses, and his peers think highly of his work. Yet the general poetry-reading public, let alone the general public, has little awareness of Galvin’s achievement. If the bridge to a wider popularity has to do with being represented in anthologies and texts, then that may be...
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