Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell

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Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969444
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Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell

Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell PDF Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The Book of Nightmares

The Book of Nightmares PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395120989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.

Strong Is Your Hold

Strong Is Your Hold PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348096
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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In this acclaimed poetry volume, the Pulitzer and National Book Award–winner explores lifelong love and the invisible boundary between life and death. Over his long and prolific career, Galway Kinnell established himself as one of America’s greatest and most popular poets. In 2006, after a decade-long pause in creative output, he delivered what would become one of his last and most celebrated collections, Strong Is Your Hold. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. This eBook edition of Strong Is Your Hold does not include a CD or audio download.

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219124
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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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.

Black Light

Black Light PDF Author: Katarzyna Małecka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone

When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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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.

Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell

Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell PDF Author: Katarzyna Małecka
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ISBN: 9781624991585
Category : POETRY
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Hailed as one of the most powerful and moving poets of his generation, Galway Kinnell has been commended by critics who often pair his name with such famous predecessors as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Theodore Roethke. Born on February 1, 1927, Galway Kinnell has been working on the strength and truthfulness of his voice for almost five decades now. This well-written work offers a very important perspective on a major living poet, focusing specifically on what is a key theme in Kinnell's work--death. The author's thematic analysis does not stop short with a direct reading of the poetry, it also seeks to place her subject within several contexts, including that problematic pivotal position between Modernism and Postmodernism, and a specific poetic tradition (including T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Whitman and Dickinson). What emerges from the readings of Kinnell's various poetry collections is essentially an extended philosophical meditation on death, that both offers itself as a commentary whilst also repeatedly showing, with much clarity, how complex a subject death is for Kinnell. This meditation on death also means a deep consideration of those other large themes that have asserted themselves in American poetry--transcendentalism, nature, and life itself magnified against the darkness of death in the poet's work. This volume will make an important contribution to research on Kinnell and the author's ability to follow her subject into a very complex labyrinth of philosophical and aesthetic discussions, while always being mindful that Kinnell remains central, offers much in the way of a good example ofliterary analysis and scholarship. This book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Galway Kinnell, a major contemporary poet whose work will receive more and more attention over the coming years. In addition, this work also marks a contribution to scholarship on poetry, American literature and contemporary literature, as well as to the fascination with death as a theme in much of American literature, from Dickinson and Poe to Plath and Salinger. Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell will be a very valuable resource for students and teachers of contemporary poetry and American literature.

Three Books

Three Books PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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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.

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"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.