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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone | Galway Kinnell
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From the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed. “When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone is a poem that invites us, too, to pay such keen attention—both by seeing and listening—to the world, while also paying respect to our own inner lives, our feelings of solitude or self-estrangement, our longings and obligations to each other."—Jennifer Grotz
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When I choose a new poet to explore I usually open the volume at random in the store and read one or two. When I bought this collection, that poem was The Cat. I found it witty and dark at the same time. I still like that one, and the title poem. But it was not representative of the volume. I will probably come back to these again when I‘m in a different mood, but I‘m not going to run out and buy more of his poetry.