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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100544875214
ISBN-139780544875210
eBay Product ID (ePID)234904854
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Book TitleCollected Poems of Galway Kinnell
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenrePoetry
AuthorGalway Kinnell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Weight30.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-044904
ReviewsA New York Times Noteworthy Book "Fans of Galway Kinnell won't want to miss his Collected Poems , which reminds readers, three years after his death, why he is still one of our most beloved, essential poets. Kinnell, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, imbued his poems with resonant images and a breathtaking combination of compassion, fragility and strength." - The Washington Post "Kinnell's best poems are great with self, not piously emptied of it: alluringly proficient, capacious, seductive, roving; willing to make large claims, and risk the equation of a sounding phrase with an immortal sweetness. As durable, as universal, as unequivocally and unironically wholehearted as any twentieth or twenty-first century poet could hope to be." - Poetry Magazine "Galway Kinnell excelled at creating immersive moments. The stanzas and scenes of his plain-spoken verse are grounded in physical detail and acute psychological insight, even as they explore more abstract philosophical territory. From his dark preoccupations--mortality, and the familiar ugliness of everyday life--he draws a sense of beauty and wonder." - The Atlantic "Kinnell's poems are exactly what one thinks of when one thinks of contemporary poetry. It is impossible to consider the landscape of the last 50 years of American poetry without Kinnell...[he] was inarguably a great poet. Specificity itself -- the great bounty of attending intimately to life's minutia -- is another of Kinnell's great subjects and poetic practices. Kinnell teaches...attentiveness." - L.A. Times "Kinnell's lifelong love of the world and its creatures, his faith in natural process, and his attempts to reconcile nature and culture will continue to appeal to those who care about and want to understand our place on this planet." -Harvard Review "To read this collection from the start is to experience the evolution of Kinnell's understanding of poetic form but also to witness his unique voice and sensibility, essentially present from the earliest years. Of all the poets of his generation, Kinnell is likely the most sanguine and sane, the one most exuberantly in love with life--all of it, and he embraces it all to rise again in his poems." - World Literature Today "Whether the details are urban or rural, [Kinnell's] strongest poems have the vigor and precision of acutely observed nature writing. And they demonstrate his special expertise with a flexible yet pressurized poetic line. Through his Collected Poems thrums a metrical pulse, and the vowels often reverberate as though a line of verse were a flexing plank struck by the voice. Now, this new Collected Poems provides definitive renderings of Kinnell's poetry in a majestic hardcover volume. Gathering the poems in one place for those who've long loved his work, it's also a welcoming gateway for newcomers." - Seven Days
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal811.54
SynopsisThe definitive collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award winner Galway Kinnell. "It's 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 certain shape, that have a chance of lasting." --Galway Kinnell This long-awaited volume brings together for the first time the life's work of a major American voice. In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorializing the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict and war, to incandescent reflections on love, family, and the natural world--including "Blackberry Eating," "St. Francis and the Sow," and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps"--to the unflinchingly introspective poems of his later life, Kinnell's work lastingly shaped the consciousness of his age. Spanning 65 years of intense, inspired creativity, this volume, with its inclusion of previously uncollected poems, is the essential collection for old and new devotees of a "poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart." ( Boston Globe ), The first complete showcase of "one of the true master poets of his generation," Galway Kinnell (1927-2014): a lifetime's work and a deeply lived life reflected in over two hundred poems.
LC Classification NumberPS3521.I582
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- 09. Jun. 2021
Real Men Read Poetry
To open a book like this, filled with compelling, elegant poetry, is to be a willing participant in your own seduction; a transformation, if you will, by the most ancient and powerful of the mysteries..Add to that a nice price and, well, what's not to like?Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
