Galway Kinnell - November 3, 1977

Date
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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Student Union Senior Ballroom
Galway Kinnell

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.

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Galway Kinnell Introduction
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by Lois Shelton

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excerpt from "Jubilate Agno"
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by Christopher Smart

Citation

Smart, Christopher. Jubilate Agno. New York: Greenwood, 1969.

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"Les Invalides"
Description

Introduced as "In the Dust by Les Invalides"

Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"Blackberry Eating"
Description

Introduced as "Blackberries for Breakfast"

Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"Memory of Wilmington"
Description

Introduced as "Wilmington Delaware"

Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"Goodbye"
Description

Introduced as "My mother, poor woman..."

Citation

Kinnell, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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"Tonight, the Oohaoo..."
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"Song of Myself"
Description

fragment from Walt Whitman's poem

Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Norton, 1973.

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"Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight"
Citation

Kinnell, Galway. The Book of Nightmare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

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