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Jan 1, 1971 · The Book of Nightmares is a (1971) collection of ten connected poems, each with seven sections, dedicated to the poet’s infant daughter, Maud, and newborn son, Fergus. This is a collection with contrasts, to put it mildly: horror juxtaposed here and there with great beauty, which is part of what makes these poems memorable and still vital more than fifty years on.
Aug 26, 2010 · The book of nightmares by Kinnell, Galway, 1927-Publication date 1971 Topics American poetry, Poesia Norte Americana Publisher Boston, Houghton Mifflin ...
May 18, 1973 · The Book of Nightmares, a long visionary poem in ten parts comprised of seven strophes each, was first published in 1971 and is generally regarded as Galway Kinnell's masterpiece. About the Author GALWAY KINNELL (1927–2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont.
(The Book Of Nightmares, Section VI, part 4) The Christian white man, at the culmination of empire and manifest destiny, delivers his last will and testament while swearing on his “chromium testicles”–a phrase both strange and yet somehow befitting the awfulness of human conquest and exploitation.
Galway Kinnell. 1927–2014. Galway Kinnell was an award-winning poet best known for poetry that connects the experiences of daily life to much larger poetic, spiritual, and cultural forces. Often focusing on the claims of nature and society on the individual, Kinnell’s poems explore psychological states in precise and sonorous free verse.
"The Porcupine" and "The Bear," like each section of The Book of Nightmares, are complete in seven parts. With these two poems in mind as examples of the artist's skill, backgrounds in tradition, development of unique mythology, I can only conclude that The Book of Nightmares is the finest next-to-final draft of a long poem that I have ever read.
May 18, 1973 · The Book of Nightmares, a long visionary poem in ten parts comprised of seven strophes each, was first published in 1971 and is generally regarded as Galway Kinnell's masterpiece. About the Author GALWAY KINNELL (1927–2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont.
