| 词条 | Galway Kinnell | ||||||||||
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| image = Galway Kinnell at Grindstone Cafe.jpg | caption = Reading poetry at Beatnik Party Grindstone Cafe, Lyndonville, Vermont March 16, 2013 | name = Galway Kinnell | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|02|01|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|10|28|1927|2|1}} | death_place = Sheffield, Vermont | occupation = Poet | nationality = American | spouse = Barbara K. Bristol | awards = {{awd |National Book Award |1983}}{{awd |Pulitzer Prize |1983}} | website = {{URL|http://galwaykinnell.com}} }}Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[1] for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.[2] From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".[1] BiographyBorn in Providence, Rhode Island, Kinnell said that as a youth he was turned on to poetry by Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, drawn to both the musical appeal of their poetry and the idea that they led solitary lives. The allure of the language spoke to what he describes as the homogeneous feel of his hometown, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has also described himself as an introvert during his childhood.[2] Kinnell studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948 alongside friend and fellow poet W.S. Merwin. He received his master of arts degree from the University of Rochester.[3] He traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East, and went to Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship. During the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States caught his attention. Upon returning to the US, he joined CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and worked on voter registration and workplace integration in Hammond, Louisiana. This effort got him arrested. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[4] Kinnell draws upon both his involvement with the civil rights movement and his experiences protesting against the Vietnam War in his book-long poem The Book of Nightmares.[5] From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.[6] Kinnell was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University and a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets. As of 2011 he was retired and resided at his home in Vermont[6] until his death in October 2014 from leukemia.[7] WorkWhile much of Kinnell's work seems to deal with social issues, it is by no means confined to one subject. Some critics have pointed to the spiritual dimensions of his poetry, as well as the nature imagery present throughout his work.[8] "The Fundamental Project of Technology" deals with all three of those elements, creating an eerie, chant-like and surreal exploration of the horrors atomic weapons inflict on humanity and nature. Sometimes Kinnell utilizes simple and brutal images ("Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" from "The Dead Shall be Raised Incorruptible") to address his anger at the destructiveness of humanity, informed by Kinnell's activism and love of nature. There's also a certain sadness in all of the horror—"Nobody would write poetry if the world seemed perfect." There's also optimism and beauty in his quiet, ponderous language, especially in the large role animals and children have in his later work ("Other animals are angels. Human babies are angels"), evident in poems such as "Daybreak" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".[9] In addition to his works of poetry and his translations, Kinnell published one novel (Black Light, 1966) and one children's book (How the Alligator Missed Breakfast, 1982). Kinnell wrote two elegies for his close friend, the poet James Wright, upon the latter's death in 1980. They appear in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright. Bibliography{{Expand list|date=January 2015}}PoetryCollections
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References1. ^{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cXV26PmJUYC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=Galway+Kinnell+transcendent| title=On the poetry of Galway Kinnell| editor=Howard Nelson| chapter=The Rank Favor of Blood| author=Charles Molesworth| publisher=University of Michigan Press| year=1987| isbn=978-0-472-06376-5 }} 2. ^The Poetry Foundation, Galway Kinnell, 1927–2014, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/galway-kinnell 3. ^Press release of November 8, 2000, from the University of Rochester 4. ^"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post 5. ^Poets.org 6. ^1 Smith College press release 7. ^{{cite web |author=Daniel Lewis |date=October 29, 2014 |title=Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/books/galway-kinnell-poet-who-went-his-own-way-dies-at-87.html?_r=1 |website=New York Times |accessdate=2014-10-29}} 8. ^Modern Poets 9. ^Poetry Archive 10. ^1 2 [https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1983 "National Book Awards - 1983"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-07. (With essay by Eric Smith from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) 11. ^1 "Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-07. 12. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2000 "National Book Awards - 2000"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-07. Further reading
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