Galway Kinnell: A Magical Coincidence
Half my life ago, I was swept by a fierce wind; it rose up, and I was gone. Nothing prepared me for such violence: I broke oaths, wrecked all edifices of a middle class woman’s life: marriage, home, plans for success in the precious material world. I would relinquish all but my child to inhabit a psyche foreign and fraught, making myself independent yet passionately vulnerable, choosing to focus on my interior self. Beauty, Eros, Poetry were making their way through me with p