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by Galway Kinnell
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Leopard
Leopard rated it 12 years ago
(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...
the terror of whatever
the terror of whatever rated it 14 years ago
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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