description: Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art. These constants appear in an extraordinary range of poems: from pastoral odes to realistic evocations of urban life; from religious quest to political statement; from brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations; from word play and whimmsy to poems of the highest seriousness. A distillation of thirty-five years of work, Selected Poems represents the essential Galway Kinnell.
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems
genres: Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Poetry, Classics
ratings_count: 433
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company