Galway Kinnell

thumb|Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 28, 2014) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. Quotes A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy. First Song (1983). The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying. Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1976). The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shudderingfrom the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:the long, perfect loveliness of sow. Saint Francis and the Sow (1986). I take a wolf's rib and whittleit sharp at both endsand coil it upand freeze it in blubber and place it outon the fairway of the bears. The Bear (1974). Quotes about Galway Kinnell I feel like Galway Kinnell has been a teacher, even though I have never met him. I love his work. I think that what he has is a beautiful balance between technique and music. He is such a poet. He's a poet's poet with the music Joy Harjo 1993 interview collected in The Spiral of Memory (1996) External links The loveliness of pigs: Galway Kinnell searches for the real beauty interview and poem “Daybreak” on the Christian Science Monitor Cortland Review interview and poem “The Fundamental Project of Technology” "Galway Kinnel reads 'Wait' " for the WGBH series, New Television Workshop " 'Since you asked..,' with Galway Kinnell for the WGBH series, New Television Workshop Academy of American Poets biography and links to interviews and poems Modern American Poetry short biography Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Academics from the United States Category:Translators from the United States Category:1927 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Poets from Rhode Island Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:National Book Award winners Category:New York University faculty