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Galway Kinnell's books of
poetry include What a Kingdom

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It Was, Flower Herding on Mount
Monadnock, Body Rags, The Book

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of Nightmares, and The Avenue
Bearing the Initial of Christ

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into the New World.

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He's well known for
his translations

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of Francois Villon, Yves
Bonnefoy and Yvon Goll.

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When I went to work for
the Poetry Center in 1970,

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Mr. Kinnell was
our first visitor,

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and I was very nervous
and very frightened.

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All day he kept coming into the
office with manuscript pages,

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and Phyllis Gibbs
was typing, and then

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he'd come back in with the
same page of few minutes

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later all full of marks, and
Phyllis would type it again.

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This went on all day.

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He was reading that evening
from The Book of Nightmares,

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still in manuscript.

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Something went wrong, we
didn't get a tape recording.

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I was so nervous that after
I introduced Mr. Kinnell

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and went backstage
to shake, I heard

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the lovely music of his voice,
but I hadn't the vaguest idea

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of what he said.

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So it's a great pleasure for me
to be able to hear him tonight.

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Mr. Galway Kinnell.

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[APPLAUSE]

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