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Dedication

To those


Who have survived winters past
Who will survive winters yet to come
Who never stop believing
That flowers will grow!


Winter Has Lasted Too Long 
(Hardcover - 1977)

This James Kavanaugh collection of poetry is a fervent challenge to the apathetic and disenchanted.  He calls on us to feel deeply and believe strongly.  "We will not," he says in the introduction, "struggle to posses the weeds of influence or power.  We shall be as free as we want, as mad as we are, as honest as we can.  We shall accept no price for our integrity."

Kavanaugh protests the world around us that seems to conspire to corrupt us, numb our sensitivity and make us forgetful of others.  His poems speak, with deceptive simplicity, of what is truely important to us.  "This book," he writes, " is a heart's recognition that truth matters and love is attainable.  It is a ffierce promise that Spring will begin tomorrow, because
Winter Has Lasted Too Long.

Product Details
  • Hardcover:  pages
  • Publisher: E.P. Dutton (1977)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087690-248-4
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  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
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