Galway Kinnell
American poet whose The Book of Nightmares and Selected Poems (Pulitzer 1983) show a sustained engagement with mortality and the natural world. He taught for decades at New York University.
Works
- What a Kingdom It WasEarly poems on love, landscape, and narrative particularity
- Body RagsVisceral poems embracing animal life and corporeal vulnerability
- The Book of NightmaresSequence of ten long poems on birth, death, consciousness, and nothingness
- Mortal Acts Mortal WordsPoems on ethical action and the sacred dimensions of ordinary living
- Selected PoemsSelected retrospective spanning Kinnell's major works