Imperfect Thirst
Kinnell approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread. It includes re-visions of moments of childhood and youth; reflections on the relationship between humans and the other creatures; poems bearing on music, language, sex mortality; five poems based on the...
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Kinnell approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread. It includes re-visions of moments of childhood and youth; reflections on the relationship between humans and the other creatures; poems bearing on music, language, sex mortality; five poems based on the form of the Persian ghazal; love poems; and a tender evocation of a daughter taking care of her old father.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395755280 (039575528X)
Publish date: August 30th 1996
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
(Mostly) quiet poems of memory and loss, spiced with Kinnellisms like:"It engraves sounds into paper and fills them with pounded nutgall."and, in the midst of a poem about a cellist:"... In a back alley a cat opens its pink-ceilinged mouth, gets nettedin full yowl, clubbed, bagged, bicycled off, hag...
For some reason I didn't find a lot to latch onto in this collection. Rare, I guess, given how much I like all his other collections. It says more about me than the book. "Neverland" is incredible. I'm going to check back in with this book in 5-10 years.
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