| Description |
xi, 173 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
First Song -- For William Carlos Williams -- Freedom, New Hampshire -- The Supper After the Last -- The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World -- The River That Is East -- To a Child in Calcutta -- For Robert Frost -- Poem of Night -- Middle of the Way -- Ruins Under the Stars -- Spindrift -- Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock -- Another Night in the Ruins -- Lost Loves -- Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond -- The Burn -- The Fly -- How Many Nights -- The Porcupine -- The Bear -- Under the Maud Moon -- The Hen Flower -- The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible -- Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight -- Lastness -- Fergus Falling -- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps -- Saint Francis and the Sow -- Wait -- Daybreak -- Blackberry Eating -- Kissing the Toad -- On the Tennis Court at Night -- Looking at Your Face -- 52 Oswald Street -- The Road Between Here and There -- Conception -- The Sow Piglet's Escapes -- The Olive Wood Fire -- The Frog Pond -- Prayer -- Fire in Luna Park -- Cemetery Angels -- First Day of the Future -- The Fundamental Project of Technology -- The Waking -- The Silent Evening -- The Tragedy of Bricks -- The Cat -- Last Gods -- Oatmeal -- The Perch -- When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone -- My Mother's R and R -- The Man in the Chair -- The Cellist -- Running on Silk -- Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West -- Sheffield Ghazal 5: Passing the Cemetery -- Parkinson's Disease -- Rapture -- Flies -- Neverland. |
| Summary |
The poems in this volume have been newly selected by Kinnell from his eight collections published between 1960 and 1994. Readers get a glimpse of the life of this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kinnell, Galway, 1927- Poems. Selections. New selected poems. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2000 (OCoLC)606255547 |
| ISBN |
0618021876 |
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9780618021871 |
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