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"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment."
- Galway Kinnell
About Galway Kinnell
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Galway Kinnell, a Vermont poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, died Tuesday at his home in Sheffield, Vermont. Born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island, Kinnell won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for his Selected Poems. From 1989 to 1993 he was Vermont's poet laureate. According to the National Poetry Foundation, "Critic Morris Dickstein called Kinnell 'one of the true master poets of his generation.' Dickstein added, 'there are few others writing today in whose work we feel so strongly the full human presence.'"
Source and Interesting Links
"Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87," The New York Times, October 29, 2014
Learn more about Galway Kinnell and enjoy his poetry at the Poetry Foundation.
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