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Original Title:	The Book of Nightmares
ISBN:	0395120985 (ISBN13: 9780395120989)
Edition Language:	English

The Book of Nightmares Paperback | Pages: 88 pages

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Title	:	The Book of Nightmares
Author	:	Galway Kinnell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 88 pages
Published	:	May 18th 1973 by Mariner Books (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Poetry. Literature. Contemporary

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1 This book is at least a week overdue having sat on a table in front of the television after one failed attempt (by me) to read it but it just looks so Badass with the arcane symbols and worn typography and shit so I saved it to try again, swearing I will get through you. 2 My friends are often frustrated by my continued insistence that I don't understand poetry and despite the fact that I am starting to think that sometimes I do in fact get something out of it then books like this come along leaving me thinking can you really get away with the phrase unicorn phallus and still call it poetry? or moreover how can you use the phrase unicorn phallus incorrectly? that is, if you're going to use it, man maybe don't talk about it in the middle of a stanza about watching your wife sleeping because that's just sort of weird and not the cool kind of weird but like just the kind of weird where looking at your wife makes you think of horses 3 Essentially for the uninitiated this is one poem in ten mostly unrelated parts each of which is subdivided into 6 or so unrelated sections meaning this is a book of 60 or so poem-y things meaning you know it's mostly a regular book of poetry with granted a fucking cool name. there are lots of stanzas about watching his newborn sleep and his wife sleep and some cool parts about bears and rain and fire and i gotta say i like the bears and the rain and the fire. but mostly there's a lot of being fascinated with the idea of writing a FUCKING LONG POEM which yknow i understand but maybe talking about how your work is epic inside of your Epic Work sort of dilutes the grandness? and maybe if you have a book of one poem which is really c'mon ten poems and the first one talks a lot about being first and the last one well you get it and the middle ones are full of like people sleeping and random asides that don't totally carry a theme and then one unicorn phallus i dunno maybe you shouldn't call your book The Book Of Fucking Nightmares and maybe not such a cool cover? cuz srsly if you just called it A Book Where People Sleep And There Are Some Bears I would still read that book but i wouldn't be so annoyed with you when I hit the unicorn phallus just because you write a lot of phrases with a lot of line breaks it's not always poetry (case in point) and just because you can write weird it don't always mean you can write good although I know you can cuz srsly the bits with the bears and rains and fires more of that cuz that I might find myself returning to before I let this slide into the drop-box at the library.

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Who can say how quickly the Dissembler weaves his will? Weeds creep in faster the finer the garden. Chance was that quickly tripping spider of soft fortunes and poisonous heart. Chance was that way things could have been. The loser fashions his yoke from genuflection. Of such a solid piece of plowshare is Galway Kinnel's epic rubric, The Book of Nightmares.At the overture of contention, the Dissembler tapped his baton upon the aceldama of hope. As I read The Book of Nightmares, I heard and was

i think maybe reading these poems while back home in rhode island was cheating a little, because a) kinnell was born in providence and grew up in pawtucket, and b) i'm in the middle of some semi-existential family realizations, and the book is about kinnell's family and about how we live, in small moments, with the awareness that everything around us (including ourselves and the people we love most) is destined to leave. the poems feel wide-open and spacious, but also simultaneously raw and

A broken clock is right twice a day. That is how I explain to myself that I really like these poems. Usually I find Kinnell's poems to be overblown and melodramatic in a way that is unctious at best. These poems, however, really do what they set out to do, and a little melodrama fits the prospectus just right. Here, Kinnell takes risks, psychological and poetic, that I have not seen in the other books of his that I've picked up. In fact, this one is the only book of his that I would recommend,

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I enjoyed it. But it's not the masterpiece I've heard it was from some. The language wasn't fresh enough in places, the symbolism too heavy-handed, or in places the poem felt too easy, or too dramatic. Sometimes it went back to a very superficial place, a very predictable nightmare of the flesh. But there were lines that I really liked. Like "Let our scars fall in love" and "I have felt the zero/freeze itself around the finger dipped slowly in."

Poems that move the soul by appealing to wonder. The work attempts to embrace the immenseness of existence, the disriptive consequences of our mortality.