The Book of NightmaresThe Book of Nightmares, a long visionary poem in ten parts comprised of seven strophes each, was first published in 1971 and is generally regarded as Galway Kinnell's masterpiece. Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art. |
Contents
Under the Maud Moon | 3 |
The Hen Flower | 11 |
The Shoes of Wandering | 19 |
Dear Stranger Extant in Memory by the Blue Juniata | 27 |
In the Hotel of Lost Light | 35 |
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible | 41 |
Little SleepsHead Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight | 49 |
The Call Across the Valley of NotKnowing | 57 |
The Path Among the Stones | 65 |
Lastness | 71 |
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ashes Asians Avenue Bearing bellybutton black bear sits black stones bloom blue Juniata Body Rags Book of Nightmares brain broken Burnsie caca caput mortuum ci-gît clinging cobblestones corpse crib cried cursed bread darkness dead Dear Galway DEAR STRANGER EXTANT dream drifting dust dying earth empty extant in memory eyes face fire flame flesh floats forever François Villon freeway fur glistening GALWAY KINNELL glittering grease groan or wheeze hand head hen feathers HOTEL OF LOST huge Imperfect Thirst Initial of Christ Kinnell's kisses lamp LITTLE SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING living MAUD MOON mouth nights omphalos blood opened cadaver path pheet pimpled Poems of François rain Rilke Sancho Fergus Selected Poems shoes shudder sing sky and vanishing sleep SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING HAIR smelled spring Squatting starlight sucking Sweat thrumps tongue twigfire VALLEY OF NOT-KNOWING voice wail walk Waterloo wind wings wishbone witness trees