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Also by Galway Kinnell:

Strong Is Your Hold, April 2008
Hardcover (reprint)

STRONG IS YOUR HOLD
By: Galway Kinnell

Mariner Books
April 2008
On Sale: April 9, 2008
80 pages
ISBN: 0547053665
EAN: 9780547053660
Hardcover (reprint)
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Fiction Poetry

Here in paperback for the first time is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The collection also affords the singular experience of hearing the poet read his own work, with an extraordinary audio recording included on CD.

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