In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising 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.
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GALWAY KINNELL (1927-2014) was a former MacArthur fellow and State Poet of Vermont. In 1982, his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was the cofounder and longtime mentor of the graduate creative writing program at New York University.
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