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by: Galway Kinnell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780679732815
ISBN: 0679732810
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: October 31, 1990
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: October 31, 1990
Sales Rank: 102403
Studio: Knopf
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Product Description:
A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - "Show me your hum-na"
I stole this book from my local Chapters and when I got home was greatly disappointed. I took it upon myself to return it to the store, I just didn't want this piece of garbage cramping my style. Kinnell is up to his usual hijinks, talking about the ins and outs of Life and Love in our time, but this one lacks the charm of his earlier works. I haven't read his earlier works, by the way, but they can't be as bad as this.
Rating:  - "Topple back into singing..."
In this, Kinnell's 10th book of poetry, one could either bemoan the book's unevenness or be dazzled by its range; I'd recommend the latter. By turns humorous, erotic, and melancholy, Kinnell here explores many of the themes that have consumed him over his 40+ years of writing -- but in a style that is less taut, less compressed. Long compared to Whitman for the rolling electricity of his language, Kinnell also shares many of his forefather's concerns: "How could anyone/willingly leave a world ... Read More
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