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1	The book of nightmares more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist This sequence of 10 books of poetry, inspired by Rilke's DUINO ELEGIES, was published in 1971. It is organized around the poet's awareness of death, loss, and--specifically--the horrors of the Vietnam War. In the end, Kinnell finds solace of a kind in the power of language and of love to transcend the nightmares of the world. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Strong Is Your Hold more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. "Strong is Your Hold" is his first new collection since his "Bloodaxe Selected Poems" (2001), which updated his 1982 "Selected Poems", winner of Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the citation for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell 'America's preeminent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Imperfect Thirst more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist A collection of poems in which Kinnell writes about youth, music, language, mortality, and love. Five longer poems end the volume, the last an elegy for Kinnell's sister. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	A New Selected Poems more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist When Galway Kinnell published his first SELECTED POEMS in 1983, he still had hundreds of poems to write. His recent output joins his work over the past 40 years in this volume, which includes many poems to which Kinnell has made minor revisions over the years. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $3.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist This volume, representing 30 years of Kinnell's poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the American Book Award in 1983. It includes representatives of the nature poetry he was writing in the 1960s, much of THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, and approximately half the poems in MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Silence Fell more books like this by Josephine Dickinson, Galway Kinnell (Foreword by) add to wishlist A serious illness at the age of six left Josephine Dickinson deaf overnight. She nonetheless built an astounding career as a musician, composer, and teacher while also writing poetry filled with sound and rhythm. During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was given two of Dickinson's books. Her poems made such an impression on him that he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Three Books: Body Rags/ Mortal Acts Mortal Words/The Past more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Three of Kinnell's highly acclaimed books of poetry, published over a 20-year period and including probably his two most famous poems, "The Bear" and "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Kinnell, in his 70s, writes movingly about his perennial theme: mortality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Essential Whitman more books like this by Walt Whitman, Galway Kinnell (Editor) add to wishlist This edition of Whitman was edited by poet Galway Kinnell, whose own work was heavily influenced by Whitman's poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.18! \| SVS
10	The Essential Rilke more books like this by Galway Kinnell (Translator), Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Liebmann (Selected by) add to wishlist German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity.? His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century.? Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and ... see all copies from $3.69! new only from $4.40! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964 more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Kinnell's great poem, "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," was inspired by a piece of advice from William Carlos Williams, who counseled him to write about something he was familiar with--in this case, Avenue C in New York City. This 14-part, 450-line, autobiographical, confessional, free-verse poem is considered by many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	Walking down the stairs : selections from interviews more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist A collection of Kinnell's critical pieces. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $13.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Early Poems 1947-1959 more books like this by Yves Bonnefoy, Galway Kinnell (Translator), Richard Pevear (Contributions by) add to wishlist This excellent translation of Bonnefoy's early poems represents an enormous contribution to contemporary poetry, serving as an introduction to the work of Bonnefoy for those unfamiliar with his poetry as well as further evidence of his mastery for those who know his work well. see all copies from $10.60! new only from $16.75! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World; Poems 1946-1964 more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Kinnell's great poem, "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," was inspired by a piece of advice from William Carlos Williams, who counseled him to write about something he was familiar with--in this case, Avenue C in New York City. This 14-part, 450-line, autobiographical, confessional, free-verse poem is considered by many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	How the Alligator Missed Breakfast more books like this by Galway Kinnell, Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator) add to wishlist A book for children by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell. see all copies from $2.51! signed copies \| first editions
16	Mortal Acts Mortal Words Pa more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Kinnell's fifth book of poetry appeared nine years after THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Essential Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Liebmann (Translator), Galway Kinnell (Translator) add to wishlist Galway Kinnell, a translator of Rilke's poetry, was a lifelong admirer of Rilke, who inspired much of his own work. see all copies from $7.49! signed copies \| first editions
18	Mortal Acts Mortal Words more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Kinnell's fifth book of poetry appeared nine years after THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES. see all copies from $8.00! signed copies \| first editions
19	The Essential Whitman more books like this by Galway Kinnell (Editor), Walt Whitman add to wishlist This edition of Whitman was edited by poet Galway Kinnell, whose own work was heavily influenced by Whitman's poetry. see all copies from $1.99!
20 view cover	Our Mothers, Our Selves: Writers and Poets Celebrating Motherhood more books like this by Karen J Donnelly (Editor), J B Bernstein (Editor), Galway Kinnell add to wishlist An anthology of more than 80 writers who contribute poetry, essays, memoirs and short fiction in celebration of motherhood. The writers includes well-known artists like Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
21	Poems of night. more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist see all copies from $14.65! first editions
22	Black Light Pa by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
23	Three Books CL more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Three of Kinnell's highly acclaimed books of poetry, published over a 20-year period and including probably his two most famous poems, "The Bear" and "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
24	Selected Poems Ltd Edn more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist This volume, representing 30 years of Kinnell's poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the American Book Award in 1983. It includes representatives of the nature poetry he was writing in the 1960s, much of THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, and approximately half the poems in MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS. see all copies from $111.00! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Galway Kinnell add to wishlist Features a range of poems: from odes of kinship with nature to realistic evocations of urban life, from religious quest to political statement, from brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.39! \| signed copies \| first editions

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