{"title":"Galway Kinnell","description":"GALWAY KINNELL (1927-2014) was a former MacArthur fellow and State Poet of Vermont. In 1982, his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was the cofounder and longtime mentor of the graduate creative writing program at New York University.","products":[{"product_id":"a-new-selected-poems-paperback","title":"A New Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat Silent Evening \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as they got near the ground, with a fire in the room, in which centuries of tree went up in continuous ghost-giving-up, without a crackle, into morning light.\u003cbr\u003eNot until what hastens went slower did we sleep.\u003cbr\u003eWhen we got home we turned and looked back at our tracks twining out of the woods, where the branches we brushed against let fall puffs of sparkling snow, quickly, in silence, like stolen kisses, and where the scritch scritch scritch among the trees, which is the sound that dies inside the sparks from the wedge when the sledge hits it off center telling everything inside it is fire, jumped to a black branch, puffed up but without arms and so to our eyes lonesome, and yet also--how can we know this?--happy!\u003cbr\u003ein shape of chickadee. Lying still in snow, not iron-willed, like railroad tracks, willing not to meet until heaven, but here and there treading slubby kissing stops, our tracks wobble across the snow their long scratch.\u003cbr\u003eSo many things that happen here are really little more, if even that, than a scratch, too. Words, in our mouths, are almost ready, already, to bandage the one whom the scritch scritch scritch, meaning if how when we might lose each other, scratches scratches scratches from this moment to that. Then I will go back to that silent evening, when the past just managed to overlap the future, if only by a trace, and the light doubles and casts through the dark a sparkling that heavens the earth.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376102441183,"sku":"9780618154456","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oXQ_YgVGTI9780618154456.webp?v=1789214198"},{"product_id":"the-essential-rilke-paperback","title":"The Essential Rilke - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376595599583,"sku":"9780060956547","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kUifW0RaKr9780060956547.webp?v=1789218115"},{"product_id":"three-books-body-rags-mortal-acts-mortal-words-the-past-paperback","title":"Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell's best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378247958751,"sku":"9780618219117","price":25.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lNeHBZlTyt9780618219117.webp?v=1789250857"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-paperback-5","title":"Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe life's work of \"one of the true master poets of his generation,\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e) whose poetry helped shape the consciousness of an age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Galway Kinnell, it was \"the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a lasting shape, that have a chance of lasting.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive volume includes \"The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World,\" Kinnell's stunning poem of immigrant life on the Lower East Side of New York, the incantatory book-length poem \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, the searing evocation of Hiroshima in \"The Fundamental Project of Technology,\" the iconic themes of his middle years--eros, family, the natural world (\"After Making Love We Hear Footsteps,\" \"The Bear,\" \"Saint Francis and the Sow,\" \"Blackberry Eating\")--and the unflinchingly introspective work of his later years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning six decades, this is the essential collection for old and new devotees of \"a poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out music, raise the spirits, and break the heart.\u003cem\u003e\" \u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378502598879,"sku":"9781328505705","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rbtfcXoIYy9781328505705.webp?v=1789257920"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/galway-kinnell.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}