The Cellist
Published in <em>The Atlantic</em> in 1994
by Galway Kinnell
Mar 12, 2023
1 minute
Galway Kinnell was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, an anti-war activist, a member of the civil-rights group Congress of Racial Equality, and a devoted husband and father. He was not a man of faith. And with , “the language of Christianity remains with me.” Without it, he didn’t know quite how to talk about what he treasured. In his “The Olive Wood Fire,” he goes as far as referring to his son as “God.” (“There isn’t actually any other word which will do,” he told .)
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