Collected Poems

by Galway Kinnell (Author), Galway Kinnell (Author)

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2019
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It's the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a certain shape, that have a chance of lasting. -- Galway Kinnell

This long-awaited volume brings together for the first time the life's work of a major American voice.

In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorializing the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict and war, to incandescent reflections on love, family, and the natural world--including Blackberry Eating, St. Francis and the Sow, and After Making Love We Hear Footsteps --to the unflinchingly introspective poems of his later life, Kinnell's work lastingly shaped the consciousness of his age.

Spanning sixty-five years of intense, inspired creativity, this volume, with its inclusion of previously uncollected poems, is the essential collection for old and new devotees of a poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart (Boston Globe).

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It's the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a certain shape, that have a chance of lasting. -- Galway Kinnell

This long-awaited volume brings together for the first time the life's work of a major American voice.

In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorializing the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict and war, to incandescent reflections on love, family, and the natural world--including Blackberry Eating, St. Francis and the Sow, and After Making Love We Hear Footsteps --to the unflinchingly introspective poems of his later life, Kinnell's work lastingly shaped the consciousness of his age.

Spanning sixty-five years of intense, inspired creativity, this volume, with its inclusion of previously uncollected poems, is the essential collection for old and new devotees of a poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart (Boston Globe).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 640
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 01 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1328505707
ISBN 13: 9781328505705

Author Bio

GALWAY KINNELL (1927-2014) was a MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For thirty-five years--from The Book of Nightmares to Mortal Acts and, most recently, Strong Is Your Hold--Galway Kinnell enriched American poetry, not only with his poems but also with his teaching and powerful public readings. EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.