Imperfect Thirst (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Galway Kinnell
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Love or romance, Violence, Death or dying, Diseases, Senses or sensation, Vision
Galway Kinnell’s latest collection of poetry is generally elegiac in tone, in keeping with the direction his poetry has taken with The Past (1985)—less visceral and hard-edged, more introspective and subtle, yet still a vigorous play of sound and sensuousness. Esoterica are less in evidence. Whitmanesque expansiveness has given way to an interior universe of memory and relationship. Kinnell’s poetry, after crashing upon the world with powerful, salty force, is drawing back into the rich sea from which it came. The intensity of these poems lies in the delicate balance...
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