The Book of Nightmares

work by Kinnell

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American literature

  • John Smith: Map of Virginia
    In American literature: Deep image poets

    His vatic sequence, The Book of Nightmares (1971), and the quieter poems in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980) are among the most rhetorically effective works in contemporary poetry.

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