Galway Kinnell - March 20, 1968

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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell reads primarily from his 1968 collection of poems Body Rags, which received a special mention from the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. He begins by discussing and reading poems by Tu Fu, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, and Walt Whitman.

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Introduction
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by Ila Abernathy

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"The Life"
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Read by Galway Kinnell.

Citation

Wright, James. Shall We Gather at the River. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1968.

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"Snake"
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Read by Galway Kinnell.

Citation

Roethke, Theodore. Words for the Wind. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.

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"Alone at the tavern..."
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Poem by Tu Fu, read by Galway Kinnell.

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"Counting Small-Boned Bodies"
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Read by Galway Kinnell.

Citation

Bly, Robert. "Counting Small-Boned Bodies." A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. Ed, Robert Bly. Madison: Sixties Press, 1967.

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"Reconciliation"
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Read by Galway Kinnell

Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1867.

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"First Song"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. What a Kingdom it Was. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"For William Carlos Williams"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. What a Kingdom it Was. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"Flower Herding in Mount Monadnock"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.

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"The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Students"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

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"Another Night in the Ruins"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

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"La Bagarede"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

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"The Porcupine"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

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"The Bear"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

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Galway Kinnell
Photographer
Nancy Carrick Holbert
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Galway Kinnell
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Nancy Carrick Holbert
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