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Galway Kinnell

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Garwei Kinnell

別名: Galway Mills Kinnell

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1927-02-01 (Providence, Rhode Island)
死没
2014-10-28 (Sheffield, Vermont) 87歳
国籍
American
言語
English
居住地歴
Providence, Rhode Island → Pawtucket, Rhode Island → Vermont

経歴

職業
Poet
活動期間
1948年〜2014年
所属
New York University, American Academy of Poets, Vermont Poet Laureate
所属団体
Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets
影響を受けた人物
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson
影響を与えた人物
James Wright
ノミネート
National Book Award finalist (A New Selected Poems, 2000)

学歴

Princeton University
English
学位: BA
期間: 1944-1948
卒業年: 1948
国: United States
Classmate with W.S. Merwin
Wilbraham & Monson Academy
卒業年: 1944
国: United States
Graduated in 1944
University of Rochester
English
学位: MA
国: United States
Master of Arts degree

受賞歴

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1983
対象作品: Selected Poems
部門: Poetry
主催: Columbia University
結果: Winner
National Book Award for Poetry
1983
対象作品: Selected Poems
部門: Poetry
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: Winner (shared with Charles Wright)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Selected Poems

1982年 Poetry

Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning collection.

NatureSocial issues

The Book of Nightmares

1971年 Poetry

Poem cycle reflecting civil rights and Vietnam War protests.

WarCivil rights

Body Rags

1968年 Poetry

Explores dark natural environments.

NatureDark Romanticism

全著作

  • What a Kingdom It Was (1960)
  • Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964)
  • Body Rags (1968)
  • The Book of Nightmares (1971)
  • Selected Poems (1982)
  • The Past (1985)
  • When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990)
  • Imperfect Thirst (1996)
  • A New Selected Poems (2000)
  • Strong Is Your Hold (2006)

作家による翻訳

  • Yves Bonnefoy: On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968)
  • François Villon: The Poems of François Villon (1982)
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: The Essential Rilke (2000)

作風・主題

文体
Dark poetryNatural imageryDeep image
頻出モチーフ
NatureAnimalsChildrenSocial issues

健康

  • Leukemia
    晩年
    Cause of death in 2014

評価・遺産

Influential American poet known for dark poetry on nature and social issues, Pulitzer Prize winner.

大衆文化への影響

  • Poem excerpted in Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing

豆知識

  • Vermont Poet Laureate (1989-1993)
  • Civil rights activist
  • Fulbright Fellow in Paris