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Strong Is Your Hold
Galway Kinnell
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Description for Strong Is Your Hold
Paperback. Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. This book contains a collection of his poems which include poems intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes and mythic figures. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 6. Weight in Grams: 176.
Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. "Strong is Your Hold" is his first new collection since his "Bloodaxe Selected Poems" (2001), which updated his 1982 "Selected Poems", winner of Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the citation for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell 'America's preeminent visionary' whose work 'greets each new age with rapture and abundance and sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.' The title of his eleventh collection comes from Walt Whitman's 'Last Invocation': 'Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh, / Strong is your ... Read more
Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. "Strong is Your Hold" is his first new collection since his "Bloodaxe Selected Poems" (2001), which updated his 1982 "Selected Poems", winner of Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the citation for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell 'America's preeminent visionary' whose work 'greets each new age with rapture and abundance and sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.' The title of his eleventh collection comes from Walt Whitman's 'Last Invocation': 'Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh, / Strong is your ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
176g
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247683
SKU
V9781852247683
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About Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He made his living mostly from teaching from 1949 to 2005, in France, Iran and Australia as well as at colleges and universities across America. He was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for many years, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of ... Read more
Reviews for Strong Is Your Hold
There are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence. His language tantalises us with a foretaste of meaning, an underlying emotional logic that recalls Whitman's 'I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.' Like all good poetry, his finest poems attract and mesmerise us before we really understand them.
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