Kemp Gregory uses key insights of Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Luther, and O'Neill to structure this volume, and intense poetic exploration of the depths of lived experience. Alternately celebratory and sorrowful, catholic Kin exhibits a secular religiosity that is free from orthodox restriction but firm in its resolve to express often painful truths with courage and wit.
Kemp Gregory uses key insights of Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Luther, and O'Neill to structure this volume, and intense poetic exploration of the depths ...
In this volume, the author has included 130 poems that have both appeared in nine manuscripts he has written and in 40 magazines that have accepted his work. In this way, Kemp Gregory has attempted to give a representative sampling of his life-long commitment to the "sullen craft and art" he has been committed to since his junior year in college (1968). However, each piece has been chosen not simply to be "representative." Such an attempt is ultimately sterile. The author likes the poems chosen, and he has considered the responses of many readers who have enjoyed particular poems in this...
In this volume, the author has included 130 poems that have both appeared in nine manuscripts he has written and in 40 magazines that have accepted hi...
Kemp Gregory uses key insights of Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Luther, and O'Neill to structure this volume, and intense poetic exploration of the depths of lived experience. Alternately celebratory and sorrowful, catholic Kin exhibits a secular religiosity that is free from orthodox restriction but firm in its resolve to express often painful truths with courage and wit.
Kemp Gregory uses key insights of Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Luther, and O'Neill to structure this volume, and intense poetic exploration of the depths ...