Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He made his living mostly from teaching from 1949 to 2005, in France, Iran and Australia as well as at colleges and universities across America. He was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for many years, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. In 1982 his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. An updated and expanded edition was published as Selected Poems by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2001. He also published several translations, including books by Goll, Lorca, Rilke and Villon, and Yves Bonnefoy’s On the Motion and Immobility of Douve in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series (1992). His final collection, Strong Is Your Hold, published with an audio CD in 2007 by Bloodaxe, includes his long poem 'When the Towers Fell', a requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 in direct view of his New York apartment. He died in 2014.

There are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence. His language tantalises us with a foretaste of meaning, an underlying emotional logic that recalls Whitman's 'I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.' Like all good poetry, his finest poems attract and mesmerise us before we really understand them.

• The Stone TableEveryone Was in LoveIt All Comes BackInes 0n VacationDinner PartyHide-and-Seek 1933ConversationOde and ElegyFeatheringBurning the Brush PilePulling a NailThe Quick and The DeadWhen The Towers FellMiddle PathHow Could She NotThe Scattering of Evan Jones' AshesThe 26th of DecemberPromissory NoteShelleySexInsomniacField NotesWalnutPure BalanceWhy Regret?

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He made his living mostly from teaching from 1949 to 2005, in France, Iran and Australia as well as at colleges and universities across America. He was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for many years, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. In 1982 his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. An updated and expanded edition was published as Selected Poems by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2001. He also published several translations, including books by Goll, Lorca, Rilke and Villon, and Yves Bonnefoy’s On the Motion and Immobility of Douve in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series (1992). His final collection, Strong Is Your Hold, published with an audio CD in 2007 by Bloodaxe, includes his long poem 'When the Towers Fell', a requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 in direct view of his New York apartment. He died in 2014.

There are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence. His language tantalises us with a foretaste of meaning, an underlying emotional logic that recalls Whitman's 'I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.' Like all good poetry, his finest poems attract and mesmerise us before we really understand them.

• The Stone TableEveryone Was in LoveIt All Comes BackInes 0n VacationDinner PartyHide-and-Seek 1933ConversationOde and ElegyFeatheringBurning the Brush PilePulling a NailThe Quick and The DeadWhen The Towers FellMiddle PathHow Could She NotThe Scattering of Evan Jones' AshesThe 26th of DecemberPromissory NoteShelleySexInsomniacField NotesWalnutPure BalanceWhy Regret?

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He made his living mostly from teaching from 1949 to 2005, in France, Iran and Australia as well as at colleges and universities across America. He was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for many years, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. In 1982 his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. An updated and expanded edition was published as Selected Poems by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2001. He also published several translations, including books by Goll, Lorca, Rilke and Villon, and Yves Bonnefoy’s On the Motion and Immobility of Douve in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series (1992). His final collection, Strong Is Your Hold, published with an audio CD in 2007 by Bloodaxe, includes his long poem 'When the Towers Fell', a requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 in direct view of his New York apartment. He died in 2014.

There are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence. His language tantalises us with a foretaste of meaning, an underlying emotional logic that recalls Whitman's 'I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.' Like all good poetry, his finest poems attract and mesmerise us before we really understand them.

• The Stone TableEveryone Was in LoveIt All Comes BackInes 0n VacationDinner PartyHide-and-Seek 1933ConversationOde and ElegyFeatheringBurning the Brush PilePulling a NailThe Quick and The DeadWhen The Towers FellMiddle PathHow Could She NotThe Scattering of Evan Jones' AshesThe 26th of DecemberPromissory NoteShelleySexInsomniacField NotesWalnutPure BalanceWhy Regret?