Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnellwas an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1927
CountryUnited States of America
book help led memory might people
I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.
earth littles speak
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment
laughter kissing world
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous