Galway Kinnell
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"Galway Kinnell" was an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright (poet)/Charles Wright.

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".

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I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

The very heart of the American enterprise has been taken up by the material and by power, ... It's not the kind of country [where] you'd expect to see poetry flower.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.