{"product_id":"imperfect-thirst","title":"Imperfect Thirst","description":"Galway Kinnell's twelfth collection of poems, Imperfect Thirst, is powerful and thrilling, beautifully crafted and astonishingly candid. In it, Kinnell approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread. It includes re-visions of moments of childhood and youth; reflections on the relationship between humans and the other creatures; poems bearing on music, language, sex, mortality; five poems based on the form of the Persian ghazal; love poems; and a tender evocation of a daughter taking care of her old father. Five longer poems close the book: a meditation on the lasting reverberations of childhood trauma; a lively ode to excrement; a disquisition on flies which weaves together the observations of thirteen other poets; a looking back at the past and a child's looking forward; and an elegy for a beloved sister. Imperfect Thirst is a bold, exact, passionate book from a poet at the height of his powers.","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836084400333,"sku":"9780395755280","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_f6ef5c1b-82d2-498e-a8ca-3378fa9ce220.jpg?v=1790992715","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/imperfect-thirst","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}