A New Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and this selection pulls together poems from across his long career. His work returns again and again to the body, to animals and the natural world, and to death faced without flinching. Famous pieces such as the long sequence about a black bear and his poems about his children show a writer who could be both brutal and gentle in the same breath. Kinnell wrote in plain, direct language while reaching for large subjects, and he was admired for reading his poems aloud with great force. This volume offers a strong entry point for new readers and a useful overview for anyone who wants to follow how his voice developed over the decades.
What you might want to know about A New Selected Poems
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A career-spanning gathering of poems by one of America's leading poets, drawn from decades of work on nature, mortality, and tenderness.
Yes. A selected poems volume gathers work from across his career, so it gives new readers a broad sense of his range and recurring themes.
He often wrote about the natural world, the human body, family, and mortality, in plain and direct language that reaches for large subjects.
A New Selected Poems was written by Galway Kinnell, published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Co..
A New Selected Poems is 209 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A New Selected Poems takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
A New Selected Poems is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
