UA Poetry Center
In this reading with Coleman Barks, Galway Kinnell reads primarily from a manuscript that would be published three years after this reading as Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. He also performs poems written by Christopher Smart and Walt Whitman.
by Lois Shelton
by Christopher Smart
Smart, Christopher. Jubilate Agno. New York: Greenwood, 1969.
Introduced as "In the Dust by Les Invalides"
Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Introduced as "Blackberries for Breakfast"
Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Introduced as "Wilmington Delaware"
Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Introduced as "My mother, poor woman..."
Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
fragment from Walt Whitman's poem
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Norton, 1973.
Kinnell, Galway. The Book of Nightmare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
