1927-2014 US, Providence, Rhode Island
Spoken Word
Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetryand split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".
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Today's Poets Their Poems - Their Voices. Volume 5 | Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Michael Benedikt, John Logan | 1968 | Album |