Galway Kinnell

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Selected PoemsPaperback, 24 May 2001

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Print Length
176 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Date Published
24 May 2001
ISBN-10
1852245417
ISBN-13
9781852245412

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Galway Kinnell was one of America's major modern poets. This new selection - drawing on eight collections from What a Kingdom It Was (1960) to Imperfect Thirst (1994) - updated his 1982 Selected Poems, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His poetry was always marked by precise, furious intelligence, by rich aural music, by devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and by transformations of every understanding into singing, universal art. These constants appear in a dazzling range of poems: from odes of kinship with nature to realistic evocations of urban life, from religious quest to political statement, from brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations. This selection shows how the traditional Christian sensibility of his early work gave way to the sacramental, transfiguring dimension of the later poetry, which 'burrows fiercely into the self away from traditional sources of religious authority or even conventional notions of personality' (Richard Gray). As Kinnell once said: 'If you could keep going deeper and deeper, you'd finally not be a person...you'd be a blade of grass or ultimately perhaps a stone. And if a stone could speak, poetry would be its words.' Through the poem, Kinnell throws off the 'sticky infusion' of speech and - like the hunter in his celebrated poem The Bear - becomes one with the natural world, sharing in the primal experiences of birth and death.

Product Details

Author:
Galway Kinnell
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 May 2001
Dimensions:
21.59 x 14 x 1.04 cm
ISBN-10:
1852245417
ISBN-13:
9781852245412
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Publisher:
Weight:
231.33 gm

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