I picked up another work of poetry this weekend. I read a lot of poetry these days, that's why so much of my Sansan notes are from poems.
I picked up some books by Galway Kinnell. Now he's as famous as a modern poet can be, so I was intrigued by the challenge of trying to digest his literary greatness. I like that he writes in the vernacular, but I
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Thanks for the suggestions. Any particular excerpt you'd like to share? I haven't any Dante or Petrarch. One of the barriers that prevent me from loving certain poets is their cultural inaccessibility. I feel like I need to know a lot more about the Bible in order to understand some of the older poets' metaphors.
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