Everything We Always Knew Was True

"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."—The Nation

"Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential."—Library Journal

"Galvin [has] the virtues of precise observation and original language . . . a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make [each] poem an archi...