Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Limbo - the fourth canticle

Limbo - the fourth canticle

Kinsella, John

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1917617836
ISBN13: 9781917617833
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Limbo - The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella is a long poem in thirty-four cantos, each accompanied by a sub-canto and a subscript, structured as a sustained meditation on suspension: ecological, political, spiritual, and creative. Positioning itself as a coda to Kinsella's earlier Divine Comedy, the work inhabits limbo not as a theological abstraction but as a condition of the present, a state of insufficient action and ongoing complicity, mapped onto the wheatbelt of Western Australia and its surrounding political realities. Illegal land-clearing, mining extraction, colonial inheritance, and the failures of capitalist liberal conscience run through the cantos alongside close attention to birdlife, reptiles, insects, and the seasonal rhythms of a specific place. Throughout, Kinsella refuses consolation or resolution, maintaining a voice that is self-implicating, politically alert, and formally undeceived about poetry's limits and its necessity.

Also from

Kinsella, John

View All

Also in

General Poetry

View All