Collected Poems

About this book

The definitive collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award winner Galway Kinnell. Its the poets job to figure out whats 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 lifes 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 worldincluding "Blackberry Eating "St. Francis and the Sow " and After Making Love We Hear Footstepsto the unflinchingly introspective poems of his later life Kinnells 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)