Galway Kinnell

Born in 1927 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

What a Kingdom It Was, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1960, revised, 2002.
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1964, revised, 2002.
Body Rags (also see below), Houghton (Boston, MA), 1968.
Poems of Night, Rapp & Carroll (London, England), 1968.
The Hen Flower, Scepter Press (Frensham, England), 1969.
First Poems: 1946-1954, Perishable Press (Mt. Horeb, WI), 1970.
The Shoes of Wandering, Perishable Press (Mt. Horeb, WI), 1971.
The Book of Nightmares, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1971.
The Avenue bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-1964, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1974, revised, 2002.
St. Francis and the Sow, Ravine Press (Chicago, IL), 1976.
Three Poems, Phoenix Book Shop (New York, NY), 1976.
Fergus Falling, Janus Press (Newark, VT), 1979.
There Are Things I Tell to No One (single poem), Nadja (New York, NY), 1979.
Two Poems, Janus Press (Newark, VT), 1979.
Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (also see below), Houghton (Boston, MA), 1980.
The Last Hiding Place of Snow, Red Ozier (New York, NY), 1980.
Selected Poems, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1982.
The Fundamental Project of Technology (single poem; also see below), Ewert (Concord, NH), 1983.
The Geese, Janus Press (Newark, VT), 1985.
The Seekonk Woods, with photographs by Lotte Jacobi, Janus Press (Newark, VT), 1985.
The Past (includes The Fundamental Project of Technology; also see below), Houghton (Boston, MA), 1985.
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Knopf (New York, NY), 1990.
Three Books (includes Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, and The Past,Houghton (Boston, MA), 1993.
Imperfect Thirst, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1994.
A New Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2001.
Strong is your Hold, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2006.

Also author of the poem When the Towers Fell, 2002; poems have been anthologized in Contemporary American Poetry, Penguin (New York, NY), 1962; Where Is Vietnam?: American Poets Respond, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1967; Scott Walker, editor, Buying Time, Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1985; Robert Hass, editor, Best American Poetry of 2001, Scribner (New York, NY), 2001; and Pocket Book of Modern Verse. Contributor of poetry to numerous journals and periodicals, including New Yorker, Hudson Review, Poetry, Nation, Choice, Harper's, and New World Writing
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TRANSLATOR

Rene Hardy, Bitter Victory, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1956.
Henri Lehmann, Pre-Columbian Ceramics, Viking (New York, NY), 1962.
The Poems of François Villon, New American Library (New York, NY), 1965, new edition, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1982.
Yves Bonnefoy, On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1968, reprinted, Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle upon Tyne, England), 1992.
Yvan Goll, Lackawanna Elegy, Sumac Press, 1970.
(With Richard Revear) Yves Bonnefoy, Early Poems, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1991.
(With Hannah Liebmann) Rainer Maria Rilke, The Essential Rilke, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1999.

OTHER

Thoughts Occasioned by the Most Insignificant of All Human Events (essay; first published in Pleasures of Learning, 1958), Ewert (Concord, NH), 1982.
Black Light (novel), Houghton (Boston, MA), 1966, revised edition, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1980.
The Poetics of the Physical World (lecture), Colorado State University, 1969.
Walking down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1978.
How the Alligator Missed Breakfast (juvenile), illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1982.
Remarks on Accepting the American Book Award, Ewert (Concord, NH), 1984.
(Author of postscript) Paul Zweig, Eternity's Woods, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1985.
(Editor and author of introduction) Walt Whitman, The Essential Whitman, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1987.
Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell, (video reading), Leita Hagemann and WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA), 1988.