On the poetry of Galway Kinnell : the wages of dying / edited by Howard Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Howard, 1947-

Series:

Under discussion

Under discussion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014--Criticism and interpretation.

Kinnell, Galway.

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1987]

Summary:

Galway Kinnell is one of the key voices of a rich generation of American poets -- those who were born in the 1920s and gained critical recognition in the 1960s. In some ways representative of that group, Kinnell strikes his own extraordinary chord -- a union of sensuous detail, rich music, vulnerable passion, personal experience felt through to mythic layers, and a long and brooding meditation on time and morality.

This book gathers the best and most representative writing on Kinnell. The material ranges from the caustic to the celebratory; from a chronicle of reviews to essays that describe the shape of a career and a vision; from analyses of individual poems to a reminiscence of the friendship between Kinnell and fellow poet James Wright; from early notices of his first book to several new essays written especially for this volume. What emerges is a full, many-faceted, many-toned consideration of the poet and his work.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 285-293.

ISBN:

0472063766

0472093762

OCLC:

16648051