Imperfect Thirst - Hardcover

Kinnell, Galway

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395710898 ISBN 13: 9780395710890

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994

Synopsis

One of America's great poets returns with his twelfth collection of poetry, including works that deal with love, childhood memories, the nature of art, and the art of nature.

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Galway Kinnell is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0395710898
• ISBN 13: 9780395710890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 81