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A review by kristy_k
The Collected Poems of Galway Kinnell by Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell
3.0
3.5 Stars
"Darkness swept the earth in my dream,
Cold crowded streets with its wings,
Cold talons pursued each river and stream
Into the mountains, found out their springs
And drilled the dark world with ice."
This is the kind of poetry I love. Verses aren't just sentences broken into parts; instead they have meaning that's not always glaringly obvious but at the same time I don't have to create a research project to decipher them. His words spoke to me, some more than others, but his emotions were present in them all.
"I sat here as a boy
On these winter rocks, watching
The moon-shapes toil through the nights
I thought then the moon
Only wears her mortality."
I hadn't heard of Kinnell before this, but what better way to be introduced to a great poet than by reading his collected poems? I loved starting and ending my day by reading a handful of his poems.
This book is thick (over 600 pages), and I'll admit I didn't enjoy every poem, but on a whole I would recommend this collection to any poetry lover.
"We wander slowly homeward, lost
in the history of every step."
"Darkness swept the earth in my dream,
Cold crowded streets with its wings,
Cold talons pursued each river and stream
Into the mountains, found out their springs
And drilled the dark world with ice."
This is the kind of poetry I love. Verses aren't just sentences broken into parts; instead they have meaning that's not always glaringly obvious but at the same time I don't have to create a research project to decipher them. His words spoke to me, some more than others, but his emotions were present in them all.
"I sat here as a boy
On these winter rocks, watching
The moon-shapes toil through the nights
I thought then the moon
Only wears her mortality."
I hadn't heard of Kinnell before this, but what better way to be introduced to a great poet than by reading his collected poems? I loved starting and ending my day by reading a handful of his poems.
This book is thick (over 600 pages), and I'll admit I didn't enjoy every poem, but on a whole I would recommend this collection to any poetry lover.
"We wander slowly homeward, lost
in the history of every step."