Galway Kinnell (1927–2014)
Autor de The Book of Nightmares
Sobre El Autor
Galway Kinnell was born on February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1948 and a M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1949. He taught writing at many schools around the world, including universities mostrar más in France, Australia, and Iran, and served as director of the creative writing programs at New York University. He wrote several collections of poetry including Body Rags, The Book of Nightmares, Walking down the Stairs, When One Has Lived a Long Time, Imperfect Thirst, and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a National Book Award for Selected Poems in 1983. He also wrote one novel entitled Black Light. He died from leukemia on October 28, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Galway Kinnell
Blackberry Eating {poem} 1 copia
Fergus falling 1 copia
The Burn 1 copia
Poetry and Conversation 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Kinnell, Galway
- Nombre legal
- Kinnell, Galway Mills
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1927-02-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2014-10-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sheffield, Vermont, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA - Educación
- Princeton University
University of Rochester - Ocupaciones
- poet
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - Premios y honores
- Shelley Memorial Award (1971/1972)
Frost Medal (2002)
Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1969-1970)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1962])
Poet Laureate of Vermont (1989-1993)
Wallace Stevens Award (2010)
Miembros
Debates
Rainer Maria Rilke en Someone explain it to me... (abril 2015)
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #11,831
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 62
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 9
Brothers and sisters;
lovers and children;
great mothers and grand fathers
whose love-times have been cut
already into stone; great
grand foetuses spelling
the past again into the flesh's waters:
can you bless - or not curse -
whatever struggles to stay alive
on this planet of struggles?
The nagleria eating the convolutions
from the black pulp of thought,
or the spirochete rotting down
the last temples of Eros, the last god?
- from There Are Things I Tell to No One… (más)