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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Nightmares]]></title>
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  <default_description>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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1971</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Book of Nightmares</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31870954">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4021734">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9691566">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 28 20:22:21 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 28 20:23:10 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only collection of poetry that has ever gripped me!]]></body>
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    <review id="17097261">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steven]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 05 12:38:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[        In this ambitious work, Galway Kinnell creates a narrator who, in the face of becoming a parent, confronts the nightmares of his culture and his personal history in order to make sense of life and its inevitable “road” to death (73).  On this journey, the speaker addresses the timely sub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17097261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9789443">
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    <name><![CDATA[Grant]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 30 20:33:58 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 15 15:20:42 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i've heard this book length poem is a protest against the vietnam war, but i am not so sure i get that from kinnell here.  there is mention of soliders/battle, and since he wrote it at the time the war was going on i wouldn't be surprised if it crept in, but i would be dissappointed if that was all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9789443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45030245">
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    <name><![CDATA[Joseph]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 01 06:34:00 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading and re-reading this collection of poetry for over 20 years; my understanding of it has grown and matured.  Kinnell's best work.]]></body>
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    <review id="41290877">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 09:48:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was instead looking for his novella 'Black Light' to review. We know he's a good poet. 'Black Light' is a good road trip.]]></body>
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    <review id="56902999">
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    <body><![CDATA[Really just a masterpiece, or very near it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 10 18:59:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[recommend reading in one sitting...]]></body>
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    <review id="78241183">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 15:23:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this.]]></body>
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    <review id="19368759">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 09:18:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 09:22:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book from the moment I picked it up years ago. Now that I am a father, it has a totally new meaning to me.<br/><br/>&quot;And she who is born,<br/>she who sings and cries,<br/>she who begins the passage, her hair<br/>sprouting out,<br/>her gums budding for her first spring on eart...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19368759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32761972">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jimmy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 13 06:56:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32761972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53685289">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.]]></body>
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    <review id="12109682">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was introduced into a Rasaboxes theatre workshop I'm doing in my graduate studies. It's ten poems moving from birth to death and dealing with 20th century America, ritualism, and the Vietnam War. I read the entire thing aloud one afternoon and spent the next hour quietly processing. Shamanistic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12109682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8077983">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this alone in my tent at Dead Man's Bluff during my solo at NELP. Then again on the near dock with a class Becky and I taught, we read it out loud in its entirety. Then we all took our shirts off. It was too much.<br/><br/>p.s. I'm not just using the &quot;then we all got naked&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8077983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2843921">
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I never mentioned it here, so I'll just note, in case you need the info, that close to 10 years after I first read it, this continues to be my favorite book of all time, the book that I would carry around with me at all times, if I was a person who did things like that.<br/><br/>The wages ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2843921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9111218">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 14 11:41:14 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 14 11:43:05 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard Kinnell read from this book once and was prompted, after the reading, to ask him about the &quot;cows of nothingness&quot;. I asked him what he meant by those cows, &quot;the cows, the cows of nothingness, mooing down the bones&quot;. He said he has no idea what they mean. I thought that was...]]></body>
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    <review id="3329696">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite book of poems.  Kinnell is a Whitman Scholar and influenced by Rilke.  It's a beautiful collection of visceral poems.  &quot;Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight&quot; is one of my favs.<br/><br/>His work has been put to music by Andrew Bird.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="23711244">
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    <body><![CDATA[a book length poem by a contemporary poet of amazing strength that centers around the birth of a daughter and somehow weaves thru the vietnam war without sounding preachy, but instead scaring the shit out of you with war-torn and other dark imagery.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What I learned from this book...&quot;?<br/><br/>1) Hunting bears is dark dark work<br/>2) Even our darkest parts need expression<br/>3) Life is like bear hunting<br/>4) Never tell your father you read poetry and lead off with this book.]]></body>
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