Selected Poems

by Galway Kinnell
Selected Poems
published
May 10th 1983 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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binding
Paperback, 148 pages

literary awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1983)

isbn
0395320461   (isbn13: 9780395320464)

description
Read A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell's myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early fo...more





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Aeri
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10/29/07

This is one of my favorite poem in the collection. It was one of my favorites even before I had a child of my own.

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

For I can snore like a bullhorn
Or play loud music
or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman
and Fergus will only sink deeper
into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash,
but let there be that heavy breathing
or a stifled come-cry anywhere in the house
and he will wrench himself awake
and make for it ...more
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Cherie
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03/17/08

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I love this poem by Kinnel--I think of it everytime I pick black berries at the Hoeger house. I'd like to read more of his poetry.

I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar word...more
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Gary L.
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I like early Kinnell.
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