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A Version of Alcman’s (fl. 630 BCE) “Sleep” poem . . .
Source: Poetry (May 2010).
Biography
Australian John Kinsella has written over 20 books of poetry, as well as plays and fiction; he also maintains an active literary career as a teacher and editor. Kinsella’s poetry is both experimental and pastoral, featuring the landscape of Western Australia. Paul Kane observed in World Literature Today, “In Kinsella’s poetry these are lands marked by isolation and mundane violence and by a terrible transcendent beauty.” His The . . .
Poems by John Kinsella
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Animals
POET’S REGION Australia and Pacific
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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