Strong Is Your Hold - Poems

Here in paperback is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Product details

• Authors: Galway Kinnell
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2008
• EAN: 9780544630932
• ISBN: 978-0-544-63093-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Composition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Poetry, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Semantics, EDUCATION: Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts