Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395120989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.
The Book of Nightmares
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395120989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219124
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This newly assembled volume draws from two books that were originally published in Galway Kinnell's first two decades of writing, WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS (1960), which included the poem "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," and FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK (1964). Kinnell has revised some of the work in this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell
Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Three Books
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell's best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
Strong is Your Hold
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547053660
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Presents a collection of poetry by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, including "When the Towers Fell," his requiem for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Imperfect Thirst
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395755280
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poems address such topics as love, childhood memories, the nature of art, and the art of nature
Japanese Death Poems
Author: Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
A New Selected Poems
Author: Galway KinnellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618154456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of more than sixty of Galway Kinnell's poems, spanning 1960-1994.