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    A New Selected Poems
    A New Selected Poems
    A New Selected Poems
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    A New Selected Poems

    By Galway Kinnell

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    Contains selected poems from:
    What a Kingdom It Was (1960)
    Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964)
    Body Rags (1968)
    The Book of Nightmares (1971)
    Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980)
    The Past (1985)
    When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990)
    Imperfect Thirst (1994)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 13, 2001
    ISBN9780547524498
    A New Selected Poems
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    Galway Kinnell

    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.

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    • 5/5
      I remember as well as one can after 43 years when Galway Kinnell gave a poetry reading at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was stunned, not just by his reading, but more by the poetry. I went immediately to the Centicore Bookstore and bought what they had available at the time, I think Body Rags.

      This collection affirms in my mind that he wrote some of the finest verse during the last half of the 20th Century. In "The Bear" he reveals the unity of all being even as he vividly and grimly describes the awfulness of the way of tracking and killing a bear from the inside out.

      In "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight" he bares the tender love of a father who sees hope and mortality in the growth of a child.

      He writes passionate love poems that feel the bones beneath his lover's face. He weaves himself into nature and nature into his flesh. And his language is real, unadorned eloquence:

      "In the human heart
      There sleeps a green worm
      That has spun the heart about itself,
      And that shall dream itself black wings
      One day to break free into the black sky."

      or again::

      "In the forest I discover a flower.
      The invisible life of the thing
      Goes up in flames that are invisible,
      Like cellophane burning in the sunlight.
      It burns up. Its drift is to be nothing."

      If you only read one collection by Kinnell, this is a great one. But I guarantee it will leave you want to read more.
    • 5/5
      I'm not certain that I fully understood all of the poems compiled here, nor did I like all of those that I felt I did understand. Those I did like though, I truly, deeply loved. Poems from this collection filled up a large portion of my list of 2014's favorites. I won't be forgetting certain lines for a very long time. "it occurs to me: / maybe there is no sublime, only the shining of the amnion's tatters." - "Oatmeal""Oatmeal" is a wonderful, humorous poem interspersed with lines of jaw-dropping beauty. Other favorite poems from this volume are "Freedom, New Hampshire," "Another Night in the Ruins," "The Burn," and "The Fly." Kinnell's voice is often quiet and slow but strongly moving. I was saddened to hear of his passing in October of 2014. I can only hope more are lead to his work.

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