Kinnell at Butler U., Feb. 6, 1989 by Dan Carpenter Perfect poet’s presence Galway limp white dress shirt dull brown hair finger-combed raking his brow heavy hands and gentle voice a seamy-faced Gus Hall drunk on angels I drink in his beauty for free in a lecture hall packed with lit students under duress signed in penned and I contemplate the abstract and the concrete along a straight diagonal line – at the far end Kinnell pawing his glasses singing of swifts and frogs rescued when one has been a long time alone . . . at the near end a row ahead of me ...
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