Galway Kinnell

Mr. Kinnell received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his 1980 volume, Selected Poems.

Among his other books are Imperfect Thirst, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, The Book of Nightmares,

Body Rags, and, most recently, A New Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

He has also published translations of works by Francois Villon, Yvan Goll, Yves Bonnefroy, and Rainer Maria

Rilke. He divides his time between Vermont and New York City, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque

Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.