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I will not name a "date I finished this book" because I don't think I'll ever be finished with this book. The titular cycle defined a part of my life the summer after my sophomore year in college; there are poems in it that I still haven't read with the focus they deserve. Galway Kinnell uses language with sensuality, precision, despair, joy, observation, creation, and more; he doesn't need to invent a new genre of poems because the ones he writes are so fully themselves.
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