Imperfect thirst
By: Galway Kinnell.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9780395710890
Description: Galway Kinnell's twelfth collection of poems, Imperfect Thirst, is powerful and thrilling, beautifully crafted and astonishingly candid. In it, 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. Five longer poems close the book: a meditation on the lasting reverberations of childhood trauma; a lively ode to excrement; a disquisition on flies which weaves together the observations of thirteen other poets; a looking back at the past and a child's looking forward; and an elegy for a beloved sister. Imperfect Thirst is a bold, exact, passionate book from a poet at the height of his powers.
Table of contents: title: The pen; title: My mother's R & R; title: Showing my father through freedom; title: Hitchhiker; title: The man in the chair; title: Picnic; title: The cellist; title: Running on silk; title: The deconstruction of Emily dickinson; title: The night; title: Trees; title: Sheffield ghazals; title: The biting insects; title: Paradise elsewhere; title: Collusion of elements; title: Driving west; title: Passing the cementery; title: Parkinson's disease; title: Telephoning in Mexican sunlight sunlight; title: "The music of poetry"; title: Rapture; title: The road across skye; title: Lackawanna; title: Holy shit; title: Flies; title: The striped snake and the goldfinch; title: Neverland.