Leland Kinseys muchanticipated new and selected poetry collection Galvanized ranges from Kinseys home in the rugged mountains of northern Vermont to the towering stone lighthouses and highland shielings of his ancestors Scotland. Drawing from seven previous acclaimed collections and with more than twelve new poems Kinsey takes us with him on his travels to the brawling rivers of Labrador the slopes of Kilimanjaro the wheat fields and dinosaur digs of Alberta and the ranchos of the TexMex border. With precise and original images the Egyptian mummies used to stoke the furnaces of 19thcentury steamships the hardwood timbers of Swahili sailing freighters dating back three thousand years Kinsey carries us deep into human history and into the natural world we were once all intimately a part of. With him we visit the rough country ballfields and raw girlie shows of his youth and experience the endlessly fascinating intricacies of the work hes done as a farrier printer horseman dairy farmer teacher. In language so exact and powerful it appears to be galvanized itself Kinsey is a poet of the reaches of the world and our place in it. He writes of love and loss of family and friendship of joy and sorrow always with a hardearned vision of hope always straight from his own dauntless heart.