UA Poetry Center
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.
Read by Galway Kinnell.
Wright, James. Shall We Gather at the River. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1968.
Read by Galway Kinnell.
Roethke, Theodore. Words for the Wind. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.
Poem by Tu Fu, read by Galway Kinnell.
Read by Galway Kinnell.
Bly, Robert. "Counting Small-Boned Bodies." A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. Ed, Robert Bly. Madison: Sixties Press, 1967.
Read by Galway Kinnell
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1867.
Kinnell, Galway. What a Kingdom it Was. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Kinnell, Galway. What a Kingdom it Was. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Kinnell, Galway. Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Kinnell, Galway. Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.