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Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 87
Pulitzer Prize-winning US poet Galway Kinnell, best known for his spiritual poems connecting the experiences of daily life to larger forces, has died aged
His wife, Barbara, said he died on Tuesday at their home in Vermont, after suffering from leukaemia.
Kinnell was among the most celebrated poets of his time and wrote more than a dozen books spanning five decades.
He won the Pulitzer for his book Selected Poems.
The collection also won the National Book Award for Poetry, sharing the honour with contemporary Charles Wright.
His other best-known works include The Book of Nightmares, inspired by the horror of the Vietnam war, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words.
One his most famous poems is The Bear, telling of a hunter who, after consuming animal blood and excrement, comes to identify with his prey.
Other notable poems include After Making Love We Hear Footsteps and When the Towers Fell, abou
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Galway Kinnell: Pulitzer Prize-winning US poet whose accessible, intensely human work covered family, illness and the ravages of war
Galway Kinnell was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, whose work explored the themes of nature, religion and human rights and connected the experiences of daily life to larger forces. He is credited with opening up American poetry from the cerebral wit of the s to the more liberated, political work of the s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual takes on the outsiders and the underside of contemporary life.
In a career spanning five decades, Kinnell wrote more than a dozen books of poetry, one of which, Selected Poems (), won the Pulitzer Prize and also a share of the National Book Award with Charles Wright. This tome of work pushed deep into the heart of human experience in the decades after the Second World War. Shortly after these awards, he won a prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant.
Kinnell was part of a generation of poets who wer
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