The Book of Nightmares

Name: The Book of Nightmares
Author: Galway Kinnell

by Galway Kinnell

Sequence of ten long poems on birth, death, consciousness, and nothingness

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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.

More by Galway Kinnell

What a Kingdom It WasEarly poems on love, landscape, and narrative particularity
Body RagsVisceral poems embracing animal life and corporeal vulnerability
Mortal Acts Mortal WordsPoems on ethical action and the sacred dimensions of ordinary living
Selected PoemsSelected retrospective spanning Kinnell's major works