""Partway to Geophany," the nineteenth collection by the celebrated poet Brendan Galvin, chronicles the waxing and waning of the year in a small seacoast town on Cape Cod. This setting allows Galvin, as a naturalist and environmentalist, to undertake poems that meditate on wildlife, landscape, and the passage of time. His spirit of inclusivity also surfaces in poems of love, local people, foreign and domestic travel, and even writing itself. Throughout, Galvin probes the implied question, What is humanity's place in the natural world? His masterful use of the narrative lyric produces poems of great mystery and intimacy, in tones varying from grave to playful, as he reflects on the cruelties of time and the pleasures of being alive"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Contents -- I -- Trance -- February Light -- A Half-Moon in March -- Summer Dawn, Summer Nightgown -- You, and the Ursus Remembered -- Paired in Time -- Where's My Gadabout Girl Tonight -- Hrafn -- There Are Times I Need to Forget You -- II -- Ryders Cove -- One Willet -- Winter Warbler -- Best March Breakfast -- One Answer -- Harrier Weather -- Stragglers -- Survivalists -- Snowy Owl -- A Promise -- Watched Over -- Reading My Poems of Fifty Years Ago -- Unpaved Ways to Geophany -- III -- Arriviste Houses -- It Was Snowing and it Was Going to Snow -- A Late March Snow -- Hunters

Neighbor Fox -- IV -- Two British Tourists, Half Moon Bay -- An Underworld Homily -- Advice to Blow-ins -- An Arable Bog -- An Unsigned Postcard from Wellfleet -- V -- Voices from the River -- Marina Stanislowska's Pencil -- Having the Wrong Name -- Phantom Pain -- A Gift from Montana -- Finnbarr & Co -- Hamlet's Dog -- Down Escalator -- Self-elegy: Dungallon Westerly Tending -- Selling It -- After the Stroke -- Ghost Flights Floating Down -- In the Silence of All Systems Motorless

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