When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone - Softcover

Kinnell, Galway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679732810 ISBN 13: 9780679732815

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

From the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.

"When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone is a poem that invites us, too, to pay such keen attention--both by seeing and listening--to the world, while also paying respect to our own inner lives, our feelings of solitude or self-estrangement, our longings and obligations to each other."--Jennifer Grotz

About this title

About the Author

Galway Kinnell lives in Vermont and New York City. He has been the director of an adult education program in Chicago, a journalist in Iran, and a field worker for the Congress of Racial Equality in Louisiana. During the past twenty years he has taught poetry at colleges and universities in this country and in France and Australia. His Selected Poems, published in 1982, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been State Poet of Vermont. He is currently Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.

From the Back Cover

This book of wonderful poetry from Galway Kinnell includes such poems as 'Memories of My Father', 'Judas Kiss', 'The Cat', 'The Vow', 'Farewell', and 'When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone.'

From the Inside Flap

A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679732810
• ISBN 13: 9780679732815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80