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  <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Kinnell studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948.  He later obtained a Master's degree from the University of Rochester.  

As a young man, Kinnell served in the US Navy and traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East.  His first volume of poetry, What a Kingdom It Was, was published in 1960.

Kinnell became very involved in the U.S. civil rights movement upon his return,  joining CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) as a field worker and participating in a number of marches and other civil actions. 

Kinnell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for Selected Poems (1980), a MacArthur Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, the 1974 Shelley Prize of the Poetry Society of America, and the 1975 Medal of Merit from National Institute of Arts and Letters. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Providence, Rhode Island</hometown>  <born_at>02/01/1927</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Nightmares]]></title>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A New Selected Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Essential Rilke]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Strong Is Your Hold]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>80</ratings_count>
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Imperfect Thirst]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mortal Acts Mortal Words]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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