About the Author:
Brendan Galvin is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including Winter Oysters and Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sotheby Prize, and the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison, Jr., Poetry Prize. He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.
Review:
"Dovetailing first-person narratives of a handful of colorful characters, Brendan Galvin has constructed a story of strong import and cool ingenuity. Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene might have written something like Hotel Malabar as prose, but Galvin has made it genuine poetry as well as first-rate storytelling. This one's a dazzler!" -- Fred Chappell
"For those who may think that poetry has abdicated its storytelling authority and lost out to the novelists the compelling power of narrative, Galvin's Hotel Malabar strongly says otherwise. Hotel Malabar has the fast-moving plot of a page-turning thriller, characters to enjoy and to remember, and a glorious sense of place. Hotel Malabar proves that poetry can, in the right hands, do it all, and with wonderful economy and efficiency." -- George Garrett
"Hotel Malabar is a weird, gripping, and altogether remarkable poem about America's imperial excesses and the twilight world of espionage in which paranoia and manifest destiny jostle with the familiarity of burlesque comics doing their ancient routines. Galvin is one of our finest poets, and his preeminence as a master of the long poem is generally acknowledged. To his Wampanoag Traveler and Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat he now adds this latest poem, which is altogether a triumph." -- David R. Slavitt
"The view from the Hotel Malabar is one directly into the complex and self-contradictory heart of the American darkness of this waning century. Brendan Galvin has once again proven that long narrative poems can be as alive, exciting, and meaningful as the best novels without losing an ounce of poetic quality." -- R. H. W. Dillard
Hotel Malabar
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