Galway Kinnell (1927–2014)
Autor(a) de The Book of Nightmares
About the Author
Galway Kinnell was born on February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1948 and a M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1949. He taught writing at many schools around the world, including universities mostrar mais in France, Australia, and Iran, and served as director of the creative writing programs at New York University. He wrote several collections of poetry including Body Rags, The Book of Nightmares, Walking down the Stairs, When One Has Lived a Long Time, Imperfect Thirst, and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a National Book Award for Selected Poems in 1983. He also wrote one novel entitled Black Light. He died from leukemia on October 28, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Galway Kinnell
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-1964 (1974) 108 cópias, 1 resenha
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Blackberry Eating {poem} 1 exemplar(es)
The Fundamental Project of Technology 1 exemplar(es)
The Shoes of Wandering. One of 100 signed copies. 1 exemplar(es)
Fergus falling 1 exemplar(es)
The Burn 1 exemplar(es)
Poetry and Conversation 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuinte — 1,276 cópias, 9 resenhas
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contribuinte — 834 cópias, 11 resenhas
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contribuinte — 393 cópias, 3 resenhas
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contribuinte — 338 cópias, 2 resenhas
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuinte — 202 cópias, 1 resenha
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuinte — 152 cópias, 1 resenha
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contribuinte — 100 cópias, 1 resenha
The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (2003) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias, 1 resenha
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuinte — 35 cópias
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias, 1 resenha
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
The Art of Life: An Anthology of Literature about Life and Work (1997) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Kinnell, Galway
- Nome de batismo
- Kinnell, Galway Mills
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-02-01
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-10-28
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Sheffield, Vermont, USA
- Locais de residência
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA - Educação
- Princeton University
University of Rochester - Ocupação
- poet
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - Premiações
- Shelley Memorial Award (1971/1972)
Frost Medal (2002)
Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1969-1970)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1962])
Poet Laureate of Vermont (1989-1993)
Wallace Stevens Award (2010)
Membros
Discussions
Rainer Maria Rilke em Someone explain it to me... (Abril 2015)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 29
- Also by
- 39
- Membros
- 2,181
- Popularidade
- #11,746
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 62
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 9
Brothers and sisters;
lovers and children;
great mothers and grand fathers
whose love-times have been cut
already into stone; great
grand foetuses spelling
the past again into the flesh's waters:
can you bless - or not curse -
whatever struggles to stay alive
on this planet of struggles?
The nagleria eating the convolutions
from the black pulp of thought,
or the spirochete rotting down
the last temples of Eros, the last god?
- from There Are Things I Tell to No One… (mais)