About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: Pap/Com Re
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-04-09
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Edition: Pap/Com Re
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-04-09
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2006-11-08
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Edition: Pap/Com Re
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-04-09
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Edition: Pap/Com Re
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-04-09
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780547053660ISBN:0547053665
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"Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
I have to admit that up until now I've never run across a Galway Kinnell poem I've liked. I rather expected to pick this up, skim through it, write a generic bad review, and move on. But it seems Kinnell has (with the exception of one more-of-the-same poem) mellowed out a great deal as he's gotten older and turned his thoughts to interpersonal, rather than global, politics:
"Now beings what could be called carpenters' arm wrestling, and also, in this case, transrealmic combat between father and son. We clasp right hands (the flared part of the hammer handle, his hand) and press right elbows tot he hemlock (the curved hammer head, his steel elbow) and pull. Or rather, I pull, he holds fast, lacking the writ to drag me down where he lies. ("Pulling a Nail")
Not the kind of thing that seems tailor-made for plastering on a placard and taking down to Washington when marching in a demonstration. And thank heaven for that. When Kinnell focuses his attention on the little things, globally, that mean so much to us on a personal level, he shines. A very pleasant surprise. *** ½"
"Oh man, I picked this up on a road trip through the desert and I need to send it to zip next... some stumble, some fall, and some rip right into you."
"The epigraph of this book unifies these poems that are very much an elegy to life: "Tenderly--be not impatient. Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh. Strong is your hold, O love.""
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