The
Writers
Galway Kinnell
(1927- )
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Kinnell Biography
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Center at Smith College
Tribute
to Emily Dickinson by Kinnell
Works Online:
St.
Francis and the Sow
The
Cellist
Telephoning
in Mexican Sunlight
Under
the Maud Moon
How
Could You Not
Fergus
Falling
The
Bear
Another
Night in the Ruins
First
Day of the Future
Sheffield
Ghazal 4: Driving West
The
Perch
Blackberry
Eating
Spring
Oak
Vapor
Trail in the Frog Pond
The
Man on the Hotel Room Bed
After
Making Love We Hear Footsteps |
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Poet Galway Kinnell was born on February 1, 1927
in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton
and his master's degree from the University of Rochester.
Kinnell served in the U.S. Navy. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Paris and
a field worker for the Congress for Racial Equality. He has taught at universities
all over the world including Columbia University, the University of Grenoble
in France, and the University of Iran, Teheran. Kinnell won the both
Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983 for his Selected
Poems. He is currently the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in Creative
Writing at New York University and lives in New York and Vermont. Other
works include:
What a Kingdom It Was (1960); Flower Herding on
Mount Monadnock (1964);
Body Rags (1968); The Shoes of Wandering
(1970);
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); and A New Selected Poems (2000).
In
addition to his poetry collections, Kinnell has edited The Essential
Whitman and has published translations of works by Yves Bonnefoy, and
Francois Villon. He has also authored a children's book, How the Alligator
Missed Breakfast (1982) and a novel, Black Light (1966). |
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