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by: Galway Kinnell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780547053660
ISBN: 0547053665
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: April 09, 2008
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 120956
Studio: Mariner Books
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Here in paperback for the first time is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's 'Last Invocation': 'Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.' In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is 'When the Towers Fell,' his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The collection also affords the singular experience of hearing the poet read his own work, with an extraordinary audio recording included on CD.
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Rating:  - I always hoped Kinnell had it in him.
Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
I have to admit that up until now I've never run across a Galway Kinnell poem I've liked. I rather expected to pick this up, skim through it, write a generic bad review, and move on. But it seems Kinnell has (with the exception of one more-of-the-same poem) mellowed out a great deal as he's gotten older and turned his thoughts to interpersonal, rather than global, politics:
"Now beings what could be called
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Rating:  - Dubbed a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Galway Kinnell presents his eleventh poetry collection Strong Is Your Hold, dubbed a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The free-verse lyrics revolve around topics ranging from love poems and expressions of sexuality to admiration for the natural world; tales of Kinnell's father, children, fellow poets, and personal heroes; to "When the Towers Fell", Kinnell's somber requiem for those who died in the September 11th attacks. An accompanying ... Read More
Rating: - The View From "The Stone Table"
Galway Kinnell's latest collection begins with the poem, "The Stone Table" which reflects Kinnell's signature style while also going deeper into terrain he has explored throughout his life's work. The poem places us "Here on the hill behind the house/we sit with our feet up on the edge/of the eight-by-ten stone slab/that was once the floor of the cow pass." From this vantage point, the poet leads us to consider the geography of his poetic icons, "the blackberry thicket," ("Blackberry Eating"); "Freedom," ("Freedom, ... Read More
Rating: - Don't be scared
Beautiful in their directness and clarity, the poems in this volume are nothing to be afraid of. Very accessible by any reader.
Rating: - Amazing poetry
This may be one of the most beautiful poetry collections I have ever had the fortune of coming across and now adding to my extensive library.
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