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About Galway Kinnell Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, the American Book Award ("Selected Poems," 1982), a MacArthur Fellowship and many other awards, Kinnell stands today in the first rank of American poets born in the 1920s. It was Morris Dickstein who heralded Kinnell as "one of the true master poets of his generation and a writer whose career exemplifies some of what is best in contemporary poetry." And David Dougherty wrote in "Contemporary Poets": "His poetry communicates the urgency of love in the face of our mortality." Kinnell is one of the most powerfully erotic poets of his time, and occasionally one of the most comic. Richard Tillinghast has described him as such: "Kinnell always meets existence head-on, without evasion or wishful thinking. When Kinnell is at the top of his form, there is no better poet writing in America." For over 35 years, from "What a Kingdom it Was" to "The Book of Nightmares" to "Three Books," Galway Kinnell has enriched American poetry, not only with his poems but also through teaching and powerful public readings. He is the Erich Maria Remarque professor of creative writing at New York University and lives in New York City and Vermont. | |
