A review by messbauer
Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell

1.0

A collection of poetry that feels extremely dated and inconsequential. Kinnell’s work consists largely of transcendentalist-influenced meditations on nature and slice-of-life vignettes, most of which are not very compelling. The two strongest books, “The Book of Nightmares” and “Mortal Acts, Mortal Words,” deal with death and mortality, and thus feel more substantive than the rest of the collection, but even here I think his poems contain a lot of chaff and should have been edited down further.