Pulleys & Locomotion - 9781934703724

"Rachel Galvin's Pulleys & Locomotion, as the title clues us, is a moving book. The poems are in transit between immigration and flight, and indeed defy gravity along their vertical axes like the floating figures of Chagall. Whether revealing an imaginary room of blue sand, the folklore of a forgotten place, or an ordinary hummingbird's truly surreal reality, these poems are alive with intense colors, clear edges, and continually resonating sound."ùSusan Stewart

"Rachel Galvin is a visionary poet. With amazing subtlety, she can speak of the latest scientific discovery or the secrets of her next-door neighbor with the same level of intensity, of revelation. Readers will be mesmerized to read this book. I know I was. Astonishingly original, Galvin's is one of the voices my generation will be remembered by."-Ilya Kaminsky

"Intelligent and adventurous and musically alert at once, definitely in the stream of what Rexroth once called 'the international lyric tradition.' by which, back to Apollinaire, Cendrars, the early Reverdy and forward in countless ways."-Michael Palmer

"What does it take 'to unfurl a belief of this size,' asks Rachel Galvin. The poems of Pulleys & Locomotion provide the answer: a sensibility animated equally by skepticism and wonderùequally at home in the backstreets of foreign cities and among the stars. Pulleys & Locomotion is a capacious, riveting book."-James Longenbach