{"product_id":"collected-poems-9780544875210","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648333045813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0544875214","price":54.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780544875210.jpg?v=1781716111","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/collected-poems-9780544875210","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}