Galway Kinnell (1927–2014)
Autor von The Book of Nightmares
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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- 1927-02-01
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- 2014-10-28
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- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Sheffield, Vermont, USA
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- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Princeton University
University of Rochester - Berufe
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)
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- 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)
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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… (mehr)