What a Kingdom It Was

Name: What a Kingdom It Was
Author: Galway Kinnell

by Galway Kinnell

Early poems on love, landscape, and narrative particularity

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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

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