{"product_id":"imperfect-thirst-9780395755280","title":"Imperfect Thirst","description":"\u003cp\u003eGalway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature. This energetic collection will prove once again why Galway Kinnell is one of America's masters of the art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinnell, Galway:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - GALWAY KINNELL (1927-2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For thirty-five years--from \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMortal Acts \u003c\/i\u003eand, most recently, \u003ci\u003eStrong Is Your Hold\u003c\/i\u003e--Galway Kinnell enriched American poetry, not only with his poems but also with his teaching and powerful public readings.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844437217554,"sku":"9780395755280","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7ad62ed-ff1c-4cb8-8e46-3070af75c0c3.jpg?v=1737320564","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imperfect-thirst-9780395755280","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}