Galway Kinnell

Collected Poems (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essential collection by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner who was "one of the true master poets of his generation" (The New York Times). In the words of Galway Kinnell, it is "the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a lasting shape, that have a chance of lasting." With this deeply probing and restlessly curious sensibility, Kinnell spend decades producing some of American poetry's most beloved and revered works. This comprehensive volume includes Kinnell's expansive poem of immigrant life on the Lower East Side of New York, "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World,"; his incantatory book-length poem, The Book of Nightmares; and a searing evocation of Hiroshima in "The Fundamental Project of Technology." It covers the iconic themes of Kinnell's middle years-eros, family, and the natural world-in works such as "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps," "The Bear," "Saint Francis and the Sow," and "Blackberry Eating." And includes the unflinchingly introspective work of his later years. Spanning six decades, this is the essential collection for old and new devotees of Galway Kinnell: "a poet of the rarest ability…who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart" (Boston Globe).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544874343
• Artikelnr.: 48535306

Autorenporträt

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-fromThe 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.EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published ten books of poems and six books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.