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

The Book of Nightmares

Galway Kinnell

Paperback | Pages: 88 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 2248 Users | 106 Reviews

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Title	:	The Book of Nightmares
Author	:	Galway Kinnell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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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

1This bookis at leasta weekoverduehaving sat on a table in front of the televisionafter one failed attempt (by me) toread itbut it just looks so Badasswith the arcane symbolsand worn typographyand shitso I saved it to try again, swearingI will get through you.2My friends are oftenfrustratedby my continuedinsistencethat I don't understand poetryanddespitethe fact that I am starting to thinkthat sometimes I do in factget something out of itthen books like thiscome alongleaving me thinkingcan you

1This bookis at leasta weekoverduehaving sat on a table in front of the televisionafter one failed attempt (by me) toread itbut it just looks so Badasswith the arcane symbolsand worn typographyand shitso I saved it to try again, swearingI will get through you.2My friends are oftenfrustratedby my continuedinsistencethat I don't understand poetryanddespitethe fact that I am starting to thinkthat sometimes I do in factget something out of itthen books like thiscome alongleaving me thinkingcan you

i cant believe kinnell went into my home robbed me of all my possessions and told me to choke :/

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 freaking loved this.

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 subject of the Vietnam War (sections V and VI), blaming the Christian Man (42) for perpetuating the deceit and power dynamic that have caused so many nightmares on this planet. But, it is in the sections where Kinnell