Here is the eleventh book of poems from Galway Kinnell. In this striking and various collection, he gives us poems of itermingling 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 book"s title derives from Walt Whitman"s "Last Invocation": "Strong is your hold, omortal flesh, / Strong is your hold, O love."
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