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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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
(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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The Book of Nightmares
( Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richn...)
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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Strong Is Your Hold With CD
(Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. ...)
Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. "Strong is Your Hold" is his first new collection since his "Bloodaxe Selected Poems" (2001), which updated his 1982 "Selected Poems", winner of Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the citation for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell 'America's preeminent visionary' whose work 'greets each new age with rapture and abundance and sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.' The title of his eleventh collection comes from Walt Whitman's 'Last Invocation': 'Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold, O love.' In this striking and varied new book, he 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. There is also anger and sorrow at human destructiveness, and "Strong Is Your Hold" includes "When the Towers Fell", his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 in direct view of his New York apartment. Kinnell has said: "What troubles me is a sense that so many things lovely and precious in our world seem to be dying out. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come" and "Maybe the best we can do is do what we love as best we can". "Strong Is Your Hold" is a powerful testament to Galway Kinnell's loving view of the world. "There are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence. His language tantalises us with a foretaste of meaning, an underlying emotional logic that recalls Whitman's I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there. Like all good poetry, his nest poems attract and mesmerise us before we really understand them" - Morris Dickstein, "New York Times" Book Review.
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Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (Poets On Poetry)
( Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry )
Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry
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Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
(This new collection of poetry by the author of Book of Ni...)
This new collection of poetry by the author of Book of Nightmares centers on the essential relationships and occurrences which, ultimately, give life shape and meaning, especially the strength and power of the family
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Three Books
( These three books--Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words...)
These three books--Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past--are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Published here in one volume, they include many of Galway Kinnell's best loved and most anthologized poems. In a note, Galway Kinnell comments on the numerous revisions he has made to many of the poems for this edition.
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The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
( 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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The Past
(Poems consider Vermont, the poet's family, the memories, ...)
Poems consider Vermont, the poet's family, the memories, parenthood, divorce, love, nature, mortality, and consciousness
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Imperfect Thirst
( 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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Body Rags: Poems
(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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A New Selected Poems
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Galway KINNELL
Edit ProfileEducation
AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1948. Master of Arts, University Rochester, 1949.
Career
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.
Achievements
Works
book
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The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
( This newly assembled volume draws from two books that w...)
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Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
(This new collection of poetry by the author of Book of Ni...)
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The Book of Nightmares
( Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richn...)
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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
(A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations...)
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Three Books
( These three books--Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words...)
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The Past
(Poems consider Vermont, the poet's family, the memories, ...)
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Body Rags: Poems
(Body Rags contains the bulk of Kinnell's most praised and...)
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Imperfect Thirst
( Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and ...)
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Strong Is Your Hold With CD
(Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. ...)
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Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (Poets On Poetry)
( Collects Kinnell's thoughts about poetry )
- A New Selected Poems
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The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
Membership
Member National Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Science, Academy American Poets (chancellor).
Connections
Married Ines Delgado de Torres in 1965.
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American