Background
KINNELL, Galway was born on February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of James S. Kinnell and Elizabeth Mills.
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Hardcover in dust jacket. Third printing of first edition. SIGNED, dated, and inscribed ("For Mary and Bill") in green ink by "Galway." Back board has one spot of staining, as does jacket, which is unclipped and intact. 8vo. 58 pp. In protective Mylar.
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( This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, ...)
This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life’s work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell’s best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
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(Body Rags contains the bulk of Kinnell's most praised and...)
Body Rags contains the bulk of Kinnell's most praised and anthologized poems. Using animal experiences to explore human consciousness, Kinnell poems such as "The Bear" feature frank and often unlovely images. Kinnell's embrace of the ugly is well-considered, though. "The bud stands for all things, even those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;"....... Galway Kinnell is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Book of Nightmares, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Imperfect Thirst, and most recently A New Selected Poems and Strong is Your Hold. He also published a novel, Black Light; a selection of interviews, Walking Down the Stairs; and a book for children, as well as translations of works by Yves Bonnefoy, Yvan Goll, Francois Villon and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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(Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richnes...)
Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.
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( This newly assembled volume draws from two books that w...)
This newly assembled volume draws from two books that were originally published in Galway Kinnell's first two decades of writing, WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS (1960), which included the poem "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," and FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK (1964). Kinnell has revised some of the work in this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
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( This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, ...)
This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life’s work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell’s best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
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Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 - October 28, 2014) was an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This book has thirty-two poems divided into four sections. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 5.5"x8.25" tall; 71pp.
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(A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations...)
A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.
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( Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and ...)
Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature. This energetic collection will prove once again why Galway Kinnell is one of America's masters of the art.
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Here in paperback for the first time is the celebrated eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s Last Invocation”: Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The collection also affords the singular experience of hearing the poet read his own work, with an extraordinary audio recording included on CD.
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( German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-i...)
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) is an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982 and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. This book, published in 1960, is his first book of poems and is, by any standard, an exceptional first book of poems. Combining a quiet assurance of voice with a sustained beauty of line and image, Galway Kinnell has a rare ability to engage and satisfy our attention. And when he modulates from simple lyrics of remembered persons and places, into the major elegiac statement of "Freedom, New Hampshire", or into the terrifying but exultant apocalyptic vision of "The Supper After the Last", we find ourselves in the presence of the seriousness, the intensity, the high humor of enduring poetry.
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KINNELL, Galway was born on February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of James S. Kinnell and Elizabeth Mills.
AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1948. Master of Arts, University Rochester, 1949.
Instructor English Alfred University, New York, 1949-1951. Director liberal arts program University Chicago, 1951-1955. American lecturer University Grenoble, France, 1956-1957.
Fulbright lecturer University Iran, Teheran, 1959-1960. Adjunct associate professor Columbia University, New York City, 1972, adjunct professor, 1974, 76. Citizens' professor University Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 1979-1981.
Director writing program New York University, New York City, 1981-1984, Samuel F.B. Morse professor arts and science, 1985-1992, Erich Maria Remarque professor creative writing, since 1992. Lecturer summer session University Nice, France, 1957. Visiting professor Queens College of City University of New York, 1971, Pittsburgh Poetry Forum, 1971, Brandeis University, 1974, Skidmore College, 1975, University Delaware, 1978.
Poet-in-residence Juniata College, 1964, Reed College, 1966-1967, Colorado State University, 1968, University Washington, 1968, University California, Irvine, 1968-1969, University Iowa, 1978, Holy Cross College, 1977. Visiting poet Sarah Lawrence College, 1972-1978, Princeton University, 1976. Resident writer Deya Institute, Mallorca, Spain, 1969-1970.
Visiting writer Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1979. Poetry director Squaw Valley Community of Writers, since 1979.
( This newly assembled volume draws from two books that w...)
(Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richnes...)
(A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations...)
( This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, ...)
( This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, ...)
( Here in paperback for the first time is the celebrated ...)
(Elp the Alligator has so many adventures one morning that...)
(Body Rags contains the bulk of Kinnell's most praised and...)
( German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-i...)
(Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 - October 28, 2014) was ...)
( Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and ...)
(Dust jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon. His third boo...)
(Dust jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon. His third boo...)
( Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry )
(Hardcover in dust jacket. Third printing of first edition...)
(Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) is an American poet who won the ...)
Author: (poetry) What a Kingdom It Was, 1960, Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, 1964, Body Rags, 1968, Poems of Night, 1968, The Hen Flower, 1969, First Poems: 1946-1954, 1970, The Shoes of Wandering, 1971, The Book of Nightmares, 1971, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-1964, 1974, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, 1980, Selected Poems, 1982 (National Book award for poetry 1983, Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1983), The Fundamental Project of Technology, 1983, The Past, 1985, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, 1990, Imperfect Thirst, 1994, A New Selected Poems, 2000, Strong is Your Hold, 2006. (novels) Black Light, 1966. (children's) How the Alligator Missed Breakfast, 1982.(non-fiction) The Poetics of the Physical World, 1969, Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews, 1978, Thoughts Occasioned by the Most Insignificant of All Human Events, 1982, Remarks on Accepting the American Book Award, 1984. Translator: Rene Hardy's Bitter Victory, 1956, Henri Lehmann's Pre-Columbian Ceramics, 1962, The Poems of Francois Villon, 1965, Yves Bonnefoy's On The Motion and Immobility of Douve, 1968 (Cecil Hemley Poetry prize Ohio University Pr. 1968), Yvan Goll's The Lackawanna Elegy, 1970, Yves Bonnefoy's Early Poems, 1947-1959, 1990, The Essential Rilke, 1999.Editor: The Essential Whitman, 1987.
Member National Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Science, Academy American Poets (chancellor).
Married Ines Delgado de Torres in 1965.