(1927-02-01)February 1, 1927 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died
October 28, 2014(2014-10-28) (aged 87) Sheffield, Vermont, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
Education
Princeton University (BA) University of Rochester (MA)
Notable awards
National Book Award (1983) Pulitzer Prize (1983)
Spouse
Barbara Bristol
Website
galwaykinnell.com
Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[1] for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.[2] From 1989 to 1993, he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
Although exploring arguably darker themes, Kinnell has been regarded as being in line with Walt Whitman in his rejection of the idea of seeking personal fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His most celebrated and commonly anthologized poems include the poem cycle The Book of Nightmares, as well as "St. Francis and the Sow", "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps", and "Wait".[3]
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^Charles Molesworth (1987). "The Rank Favor of Blood". In Howard Nelson (ed.). On the poetry of Galway Kinnell. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06376-5.
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Kingsolver, David Foster Wallace and Eudora Welty), poets (Rita Dove, GalwayKinnell, Mary Oliver and Robert Pinsky), playwrights (Terrence McNally and Marsha...
Bird: Music of Hair". 2 May 2010. Poets, Academy of American. "Wait by GalwayKinnell - Poems | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26...
Olds has said that she is more informed by the work of poets such as GalwayKinnell, Muriel Rukeyser and Gwendolyn Brooks than by confessional poets like...
from the poetry of other poets, including from poems by Anne Carson, GalwayKinnell, and Augusto Monterroso. The novel's climax, "Echo Canyon", consists...
Selected Poems (Robert Frost) by Robert Frost Selected Poems (GalwayKinnell) by GalwayKinnell Selected Poems (MacDiarmid) by Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems...
1959-1975 (1985) Early Poems 1947-1959 (1991) - co-translated with GalwayKinnell Alberto Savinio Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare (1987) Signor Dido: Stories...
specifically, the Duino Elegies have influenced many poets, including GalwayKinnell, Sidney Keyes, John Ashbery, and W. H. Auden. The novelist Thomas Pynchon...
has been translated into English by, among others, Emily Grosholz, GalwayKinnell, John Naughton, Alan Baker, Hoyt Rogers, Antony Rudolf, Beverley Bie...
York University. At NYU, he studied with Sharon Olds, Phil Levine, GalwayKinnell, William Matthews, and Allen Ginsberg.[citation needed] From 1992 to...
January 30 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986) February 1 – GalwayKinnell, American poet (d. 2014) February 2 – Stan Getz, American musician (d...
poets and writers, including: Pablo Neruda Czesław Miłosz Lawrence Ferlinghetti Thom Gunn Leslie Scalapino GalwayKinnell "BPR website" "BPR blog" v t e...
Hugo – Randall Jarrell – Samuel Johnson – David Jones – Sidney Keyes – GalwayKinnell – Rudyard Kipling – Lincoln Kirstein – Stanley Kunitz – Philip Larkin...
Enemy Joy Finalist John Berryman 77 Dream Songs † James Dickey Helmets GalwayKinnell Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock Robert Lowell For the Union Dead William...
and fantasy, authored the poem "To Templeton and Mount Monadnock". GalwayKinnell, a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, wrote the poem "Flower Herding on Mount...
Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter Fritz John, mathematician GalwayKinnell, poet Henry Kraus, labor and art historian Paul Oskar Kristeller, intellectual...
MacArthur Fellow Fritz John Professor of Mathematics 1984 MacArthur Fellow GalwayKinnell Professor of Creative Writing 1984 MacArthur Fellow Sylvia A. Law LAW...
by Lionel Daunais. Brassens refers to it in his song Les Ricochets. GalwayKinnell references it in his poem "Little Sleep-Heads Sprouting Hair in the...
April 2004). Beall Poetry Festival: Panel including Denis Donoghue, GalwayKinnell and Linda Pastan, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (3 April 2004). Poetry...
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